I’ve decided to run Linux via Wubi on my work Laptop for one week to try and work out any bugs/issues that might come about. So far I’ve had great success! I’m also building a case to present to our management requesting that whoever wants, should be allowed to run Linux. We won’t request software support from Internal IT, only hardware. Give us hardware, we do the rest. We would be in charge of our own desktop support. We’re smart guys here that have many years of Linux experience, I’m sure we can handle it :). I have a page setup on our internal wiki documenting my progress and counter-arguments for reasons they might say no. Wish me luck!

Here is my progress thus far in no order:

• Got evolution working with exchange.
• Need to get GAL server name for address book.
• Ssh agent forwarding from desktop.
• Pidgin works fine with our local Jabber server.
• OO.org seems to be handling normal office tasks, but it feels so clunky, will research a way to speed up.
• Allowing laptop to sleep with Wubi == BAD.
• Unclean shutdown from Windows will cause issues rebooting into wubi as windows seems to have a “lock” on the filesystem. Boot into windows, shutdown clean to remedy.
• Got print access via CUPS. Konica-Minolta provides the PPD’s for linux & mac!