Largo Loving Linux

A little over a year ago, dot.kde.org and Newsforge did stories on the Linux-based systems being used in Largo, FL to run the city government. Roblimo went down there, drank their coffee, and wrote a follow-up piece which might be, but wasn't, entitled "How to be a sysadmin whose pager doesn't go off". (Newsforge is part of OSDN.)

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Re:Most important quote...

[Idarubicin]

Having said that, the 1.3% vs. 3% IT budget cost reduction is not all because of linux. All of that dirt cheap hardward adds up. I'm sure their bottom sure would still be significantly less than 3% even if they did use windows. Spending a couple dollars on a dumb terminal equals hugh hardware savings.

What was your plan for using Windows with the low-cost dumb terminals, again?

In Soviet Russia (sorry)...

[dubious9]

Da, in Soviet Russia, TCO compare YOU!
Da, in Soviet Russia, thin client runs YOU!
Da, in Soviet Russia, server serves YOU!

This is an open source comment, the following is the source code:

String SovietRussia(String noun, String verb){
return "Da, in Soviet Russia"+noun+verb+" You!";
}

System.out.println(SovietRussia("TCO","compare"));
System.out.println(SovietRussia("thin client","runs"));
System.out.println(SovietRussia("server","serves") );