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Microsoft Alternative in Extremadura, Spain
grylnsmn writes "The Washington Post today has a front page article talking about how the Extremadura region in Spain is converting all government offices, businesses, and home from Windows to Linux. The article talks of their problems last spring and how the community banded together to solve them. "But the glitches are more an annoyance, [Ana Acevedo, who heads one of the government's document-processing units] said, than a hassle. 'It's mostly very tiny things,' she said." Overall, this is an important testbed for localities all over the world who are looking at making the switch. Overall, a very good and balanced article." Update: 11/03 20:37 GMT by T : Headline misspelled "Extremadura" as "Extramadura" -- fixed now.
The translation for "Extramadura" is something like "overmature" which may confuse somebody. It sounds like my daily spam.
nirvanis
Can someone translate the poll? I'd like to vote...
(I have a poll fetish)
Why are so many posts starting with disclaimers like "This likely will get moderated down because of the slashdot bias, but it must be pointed out...."?
Is the point to cultivate points through moderator guilt (and they're a stone-hearted bunch) or to get one last defiant dig in before the ship sinks (due to bias, naturally)?
The illogic of "this likely will get moderated down" is that if it is, then no one will read the disclaimer. Perhaps someday an internet archeologist will discover its prophetic remains.
Now, I realize that this will get modded into oblivion by nincompoops who fear the contagion of righteous criticism and sedition; yet the Mod Squad might see the error of its ways, showering "insightful" points on this post and its parent, then resigning as penance.
All in fun. Some of my best friends are moderators. Really.
Actually, most of the conquistadors came from this area.
I just installed Redhat 8.0 this weekend thinking 'finally'. I've tried just about every distro since since 6 and I'll be damned if I can't find an easy way to install A SIMPLE PIECE OF SOFTWARE without having to install a bunch of different libraries to get it to run.
Really, all I wanted to do was install a program that would let me watch a movie in my DIVX collection and I needed either: ffmpeg, mplayer, or any other software that would let me watch my movies. Ok, I can do this. After downloading said programs, I couldn't run them because they needed library X that wasn't installed. Alright. I find the missing lib and THAT won't install because IT needs another lib. Argh! Whatever, I'm done.
If you want to use linux because it's free, God bless ya'. But you better know a little something about linux before you begin and keep in mind; the time you spend educating your users must be a factor.
I realize that I am exposing my ignorance here but really, how hard does it have to be to install a program that comes with everything you need to run it, and creates a shortcut after it's installed?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, until someone unites Linux and makes it as simple as Windows to install programs, what chance does it have to defeat M$?
Disclaimer: I truly loathe MS and their licensing practices, and would LOVE to switch to ANYTHING else.
Ok, let the flaming begin...
sounds like some kind of awful skin condition.