On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:22:34 -0800 (PST), Robert Kennedy wrote:
>Any suggestions for distributions and documentation,
>and/or books would be welcome. Downloading and burning
>ISO's on Windblows machines would be no problem.
>Connecting a Linux box to the Holy Network is out of
>the question.

Standardize on a single distro early. Talk about how Linux
is actually more secure than Windows on your network. Give
the Linux box a chore, like "burning CDs" or "serving the
internal web pages," or "serving large data files" and let it grow 
incrementally from there.

Put webmin on the box, so newbies can dig into the Linux
box remotely without much training; it takes the edge off of
command-line-etc-conf-file-editing which you are already
(more) comfortable with. If you point them to the command 
line only, your acceptance curve goes way up. Webmin rocks.

It takes a long time for a Windows-oriented company to
migrate to Linux; be firm and gentle in all company meetings that 
Linux is a solid solution, and one day they walk up and say "Make
it so." It's a good feeling.

-Jared