Telstra Considers 45,000-Seat Linux Deployment

stressky writes: "Looks like major Aussie telco Telstra are looking at deploying Linux as the new Standard Operating Environment across their 45,000 desktop LAN workstations." An anonymous reader offers evidence that Telstra isn't alone; apparently, many other Australian businesses are considering a similar switch.

Comments

Re:Good news for Home Linux

[Hektor_Troy]

"perfectly usable"? I'd remove the "perfectly" from that statement. I still haven't found a *decent* clipboard, that all programs can use ...

FOOLS!

[flacco]

Don't they know that Linux is a geek OS that's already dead on the desktop?!

Re:Good news for Home Linux

[Hektor_Troy]

Again with the "don't blame the people who doesn't see a problem in allowing more than one clipboard in a system". Gnome (as far as I can tell from the times I've used it) uses its own clipboard as well, which AGAIN means that I have to find a way to disable that as well.

Just how the hell is an average person supposed to change that? We're talking about people, who don't even know why Windows always starts two instances of the programs they start from the desktop, because they've set the system to use single click to launch, but still double click.

This is the type of people that have to be able use the system.

Also, just because it works for you, doesn't make that an absolute truth. I've never broken my leg, and I haven't died so far, so I guess people don't break their legs and they don't die; the people who claims otherwise are obviously stark raving mad.

Don't blame X for your problems, blame KDE. And then try to find something that works for you. That is the whole *point* of choosing Linux: the choices.

For you, maybe. For mom, pop and Mr. Johnson in 3H it's because they want something that just works.

Who the hell wants to spend four months tweaking their car, because it doesn't work? Mom and pop will drop it like a bad habit and go back to Windows, "because that works for us", and then you'll never get their support.

No, this isn't JUST aimed at you, but at all the narrow minded people that tend to frequent these fora who seem to think that everything linux is Gods gift to mankind, and refuse to believe, that there just might be something to complaints. Who have forgotten, that they changed their habbits to conform with the computer, instead of having the computer conform with them.

Let's not forget who's supposed to be a help for whom ...