roy.shysterwitz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Jeremy Fisher wrote:
We need companies who put Linux on the desktop to target consumers who
want a PC that just works, Apple manage to do it. Linux is able to do
it, so why isn't there better collabrication between box builder and
software provider, Dell preinstalling a linux desktop should nit be
viewed as a social experiment.
Why? Because DELL DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT LINUX
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try and find Linux on their website. It's not that easy. Do you see
Linux loaded systems in their TV commercials? How about their blow ins
in the Sunday papers?
Of course you don't.
Why?
Because Linux is an experiment for Dell. A lab rat if you will. They,
like Walmart and others are testing the waters to see if there is any
demand and they like Walmart will pull the Linux machines in due time.
Walmart currently has one model left, last time I checked and it's
ancient.
Linux is free. Linux is ignored.
Linux belongs in the server room and far from the desktop because people
just aren't interested in Linux as a desktop system. It's been proven
over and over again.
Au contraire, see:
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092107-california-school-it.html
or http://tinyurl.com/3y87du
How open source saved a school district’s IT department
California district slashes expenses, improves productivity with open
source software
By Jon Brodkin, NetworkWorld.com, 09/21/07
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Heather Carver faced major dilemmas when she became the IT director at
Windsor Unified School District in California one year ago. There was no
virus protection, no data backup, and upgrading to current Microsoft
technologies would have cost more than $100,000, half of the district’s IT
budget. Buying security from Trend Micro to cover all seven schools would
have cost $200,000 a year.
The solution to most of Windsor’s problems boiled down to two words: open
source.
Carver dramatically reduced costs by moving about 60% of software to open
source, while also saving on hardware expenses by employing virtualization
and thin client technology.
Windsor’s “mixed source” approach includes OpenOffice, SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server, *SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop*, and proprietary
technologies like Microsoft Windows Server, Novell NetWare and Novell ZENworks.
Carver’s small team manages 70 servers, two full racks at each school,
2,000 computers and 200 thin clients.
Carver said she hasn’t run into any major technical problems with open
source software, though she initially faced a challenge convincing teachers
to use programs like OpenOffice.
“Most people come from [schools using] Microsoft,” Carver said. “You get a
fight in the beginning, and once they’re using it, they love it.”
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