On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:41 spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>> Pick up a penguin - Linux explained
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>> | Linux has a reputation as an operating system for high-end purposes
>> | such as web servers, and high-end users such as programmers.
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>> | It is also seldom out of the news, appearing in devices as diverse as
>> | the PlayStation2 and Xbox, and on 60,000 desktop
>> | computers in the West Yorkshire police force.
>> |
>> | IBM actively promotes Linux to big companies and even Microsoft
>> | acknowledges that "Linux is a serious competitor".
>> `----
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>>
http://www.activehome.co.uk/computeractive/features/2013847/pick-penguin-linux-explained
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>> I'm not sure the Yorkshire police force has 60k desktops, but regardless,
>> that's more Linux advocacy in popular sites.
>
> Yorkshire WAS a large county. But these days, it's split into 3 seperate
> counties, west, north and south. So although all these places fall within
> yorkshire...
>
> Doncaster, leeds, huddersfield, halifax, harrogate, york, bradford,
> bridlington, scarborough, whitby, filey... etc
>
> York falls into north yorkshire, halifax and hudderfield are west
> yorkshire and doncaster is south yorkshire.
>
> Still, west yorkshire does cover quite a large area, so, it's possible.
Yorkshire still is a large county. It always has been. So large, in fact
that has traditionally been administered as the three "ridings" (old word
meaning a third), the West, North and South.
These days, it seems to have become just "West Yorkshire" etc.
I'm as sceptical as you are on the numbers.
Last I heard, West Yorkshire Police had IIRC 3,500 desktops.
Also IIRC they were experimenting with "hot-desking" - a magnetic card for
everybody, log in on any machine, and up comes your own stuff.
I don't know how it all went, but certainly they've always been one of the
first for technical innovation.
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