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Megafreight migration: Open source lightens the load
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| My interest in Linux was not all that different to many others, I suppose. I
| was eager to try and understand what the fuss was all about back in 1996
| while I was still at school and it has kept me interested ever since. At the
| age of 23 I was employed by Megafreight as their systems administrator. For
| about a year I struggled with corrupt MS Exchange 5.5 database files and
| temperamental MS Servers before I decided to implement our first Linux
| server.
|
| I had been experimenting with Gentoo as my distro of choice mainly because it
| was said that Gentoo gives one a better insight into the workings of Linux.
| It is also a very fast distribution as everything is compiled from source.
| This was demonstrated when I installed Gentoo on a P4 3.0GHz CPU, 4Gig of RAM
| and a 160GB IDE disk. We had recently lost our entire mail server due to a
| corrupt Exchange 5.5 database file and had moved our mail hosting to a fairly
| new Linux management company called Synaq.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4133
Recent:
Ubuntu in South African Schools
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| Over the last month, I've heard that the government's licensing agreement
| with Microsoft is now about to expire and has not been renewed yet.
| Apparently, the Department of Education is now pushing schools into switching
| to Linux as otherwise they will need to budget for a couple of extra million
| just for software licensing fees.
|
| It's surprising to me though that they are only pushing for this now. They
| should have started the transition quite some time ago. Linux has matured a
| lot as a desktop operating system (with no small thanks to Ubuntu) and it's
| much better to get your learners familiar with Linux and decrease your
| dependency on any particular software vendor regardless of your current
| agreements.
|
| [...]
|
| So of course, now the question is, how many will start to adopt Linux?
| Obviously, as you can expect, there will be a lot of fighting and kicking by
| lots of the schools. The teachers know what they know and obviously feel much
| more comfortable sticking with what they have. However, money talks, and now
| the pressure is (apparently) on.
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http://blog.charlvn.za.net/2009/02/ubuntu-in-south-african-schools.html
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