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Telstra Considers 45,000-Seat Linux Deployment

Posted by timothy on from the or-pretends-to-as-a-bargaining-chip dept.

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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  1. Rasterman by extrasolar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    *squints his eyes and sticks out his tongue*

    Ha ha!

    Seriously, can we stop the "GNU/Linux will never make it on the desktop" arguments now?

    But then again, some people will argue that the sky is green and that Americans never landed on the moon, too.

  2. Re:Good news for Home Linux by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "Open source is like pac-man!". Yup, it's fun, addictive, and it's set to take the world by storm.
    But Linux isn't Pac-Man, so there just might be a problem ...
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  3. Re:knowing where you going by swillden · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    XP is pretty.

    What are you smoking? XP is butt ugly. The default background is nice, but everything else is cartoonish and annoyingly oversized. Luckily, it's not that hard to fix it.

    Personally, I'm running KDE3 with the Mosfet Liquid theme (translucent menus, stippled window backgrounds, "lickable" buttons, etc.) and the Connectiva Crystal icon theme. Now that's pretty.

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