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

Telstra and MS go back a ways.

[child_of_mercy]

Telstra have been MS junkies a long way back, Bill G made a point of wowing the Australian Government with presentations to Cabinet in the early days of the commercial net (1996/7 - early for MS) and with that push went the Govt owned corporates, of which Telstra is one.

Telstra nearly lost their commercial ISP business due to faillings in Win NT's stability in those days.

They also got extremely upset with MS publishing criticism of their Broadband strategy earlier this year (they'd thought they were buddies)

At a guess though I'd say Telstra are using this bit of smoke to help their negotiations with MS, negotiations on a number of fronts.

Re:Not Likely

[evil_roy]

Hypocrites. They still do not support linux for their cable - remember that Telstra is Aussie for Telecommunications monopoly. Not only is linux not supported - it is against the usage policy to use anything other than the bigpond login client to connect to the bigpond cable network. Since they only have a wintel client , linux is actually banned.

Re:Good news for Home Linux

[Riskable]

Here's some clipboard tips for you from a KDE/Opera fiend...

Turn off the URL handler for the clibpoard manager (click on the little clipboard icon in your system tray next to your clock and then click on preferences. Delete the file handler for http://*).

Setup a hotkey for the clipboard manager and configure it to pop up at your mouse location (under the general tab in preferences).

Don't bother clicking on the URL in Opera. just have the URL in your clipboard and middle-click your browser window (this will tell Opera--or any other Linux browser for that matter--to go to that URL).

Once you learn that A) you can middle-click URLs into browsers and B) how to use Klipper (the KDE clipboard manager) your pasting operations will be a dream come true!

As a matter of fact, now that I'm used to the Klipper, I wouldn't want to use anything else! I tried Gnome, but without Klipper, I was severely frustrated. When I boot into Windows to play games, I find myself missing Klipper!

I've emailed the Klipper developers and based upon my suggestions I believe KDE 3.1 will have the ability to store permanent items in the Klipper menu (for instance, you could keep your signiture in there for whenever/wherever you wanted to paste it--or any frequently used text string).

I setup Klipper to remember the last 20 clipboard items... So even if I accidentally highlight something, I can just control-shift-s and swap my clipboard for the text string I had previously. Once you try it, you'll never go back!