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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.
OK, is Slashdot now poting a story every time somebody installs Linux? This is getting ridiculous. We understand that more people are using Linux now. This stopped being news several years ago.
News! Bill Smith at IBM has installed Linux on a desktop in his cube! Story here. Smith was quoted as saying, "Well, it was a Friday afternoon, and I didn't have a lot to do, but I had to stay until 5:00 just in case. So I figured, 'What the hell? I've got nothing better to do. I've been wanting to try it out because my son said it was cool.'" Thanks Bill for your dramatic story of David crushing the Goliath that is Microsoft with incredible bravery and strength. Viva la revolution!
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Durex? Doesn't that help protect against the transmission of viruses? Fsck yeah! I'll take one of those!