Slightly off topic, Following this deal / announcement, what is needed is perhaps a tie up between suse / ibm and perhaps the bunderslegue, to promote Linux, the publicty would be huge all those german players say bayern munich with Linux / Suse / IBM on their shirts, and / or perhaps advertising during championslegue games, IBM have the financial resources for this esp if they say they are using Suse like the intel inside advert, so when they say suse, up pops tux sitting on your cameleon thing. http://www.silicon.com/ebcs53774 Paul
paul wrote:
Slightly off topic,
Following this deal / announcement, what is needed is perhaps a tie up between suse / ibm and perhaps the bunderslegue, to promote Linux, the publicty would be huge all those german players say bayern munich with Linux / Suse / IBM on their shirts, and / or perhaps advertising during championslegue games, IBM have the financial resources for this esp if they say they are using Suse like the intel inside advert, so when they say suse, up pops tux sitting on your cameleon thing.
http://www.silicon.com/ebcs53774
Paul
Perhaps back on topic :-), Our netadmin team is putting together a proposal to switch to a few Linux clients for an initial trial period with a view to fully adopting it. Does anyone have some stats on how many uk schools are using Linux on the desktop? Could people who are share their stories. It'd be nice to add to our proposal "these schools are doing it already and their experience has been ...". We too would like become less Microsoft dependent. TIA, Damian.
Does anyone have some stats on how many uk schools are using Linux on the desktop? Could people who are share their stories.
No-one, I think. We have been using KDE on the desktop extensively for more than three years now, and before that a couple of years of twm on a few machines. Except for transient personal portables, I run two computer classrooms with not a single Windows machines in either (one KDE, one NC), and no machine new since 1998, some very much older. You can view one of them on http://www.felsted.essex.sch.uk/~camera -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698, mobile 07816 821659 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk
Does anyone have some stats on how many uk schools are using Linux on the desktop?
No-one, I think.
I meant I thought no-one had any stats, not that no-one had Linux on the desktop. We have about 110 desktops running KDE on discless X. We're now trying to work out how to get it on laptops too, so as to have seamless transition between off-network and on-network use. At present, even on our thick client configuration, all critical partitions are net-mounted (/home, /root, /etc, even swap). -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698, mobile 07816 821659 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
We have about 110 desktops running KDE on discless X. We're now trying to work out how to get it on laptops too, so as to have seamless transition between off-network and on-network use. At present, even on our thick client configuration, all critical partitions are net-mounted (/home, /root, /etc, even swap).
Swap?! If you have a hard disc available, which is presumably the case on the thick clients, doesn't it make sense to use that for swap? Michael
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