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.

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Re:Good news for Home Linux

[Hektor_Troy]

Well, I'll give you some examples that I battle with dayly:

I browse using Opera, use GnomICU for ICQ and OpenOffice.org as my office-suite.

If I get a ICQ message with a web-address, it doesn't make a link from it, so I have to copy it by hand. This involves marking the address with the mouse, then waiting ~4 seconds for KDE to figure out, that the text that is marked, just might be a URL, and ask me what I want to do with it. I want to copy it to the clipboard (which I can't seem to do any other way).

Now I go to opera, where I happen to have another page open, so I doubleclick in the address bar and curse loudly, because now that address is in the clipboard, and kde again asks me what I want to do. Press delete to clear the address-bar

Go back to the ICQ message and repeat.

Go back to Opera, press paste and HOPE it's the right clipboard that I'm accessing this time (because I've only been using linux as a desktop for roughly a month, I keep mixing shortcut access to the various clipboard up). If not, I can delete the text by depressing backspace until the text is deleted. Then try to remember how to access the clipboard that the URL is located in.

OpenOffice is worse and better. I spent four hours writing this and then had to spend 15 minutes trying to figure out how the bloody hell I could move that text into Opera!

Sure, blame the programmes of the programs I mentioned for being sloppy programmers. Blame me for being a stupid luser. But don't blame the developers for enabling more than one single clipboard in a system at a time.

My experience with just the clipboards leads me to believe, that the developers and programmers have never heard of the concepts of concurrency and deadlocks. I haven't seen a deadlock of the clipboard, but I have seen the precursors of it.

Sure, I know how to change clipboards (but not on a system wide level), but would your mom know how to do that? Would Mr. Johnson, the accountant at 3H, who has been blessed with Linux on the desktop?

If you take the time to read through the abstract I linked to, you will see, that I'm not just your average luser, and even if I was, you can take your "holier than thou" attitude and shove up your ass. Both of them.