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UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux

Posted by timothy on from the gentlemen-smashing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to GNU/Linux. ZDNet has the story. "If this is seen to work in Newham, it has the potential to be a significant project, changing the perceptions of other councils," said Tim Dawes, director of local government technology consultants Nineveh."

8 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Microsoft needs all the support they can get considering they power much of the US economy

    you sir are a moron troll...

  2. Re:I tend to agree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I have used Linux as my desktop since 1994

    And you wonder why you are still a VIRGIN!

    Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

  3. Re:*GNU*/Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    After SCO kicks some ass, there will be no linux.
    Hear that RMS? Thought so.

  4. Re:I tend to agree by dhfoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you sure English is your first language? Surfice to say that I garuntee that an email software doesn't contain a spellchecker.

  5. Re:And for the Linux pessimists... by rusty+spoon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Every api seems to have from 9 to 35 arguments. Nobody knows what they are for... its a cut and paste job from MSDN, yet again... and then we get on to business processes.

    That's a lie. Just because you can't figure it out doesn't make it fact.

    Now, be honest. You tried to write code in Windows but you got scared. "Mummy, theres confusing APIs with ONE parameter and I can't read the docs because I'm a coder-wannabe that thinks that every API has at least 9 parameters! Waaaaaah!!!!". You didn't want to know what was going on.

    I suggest you sit down and STFU as you are obviously a clueless consultant who blames the API for their lack of ability. Perhaps you should move into marketing instead.

  6. Re:OS is not the problem by gregorio · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    And just being curious: does MS provide tools to migrate from 97 to XP?
    You don't need tools to do that, the parent poster is just plain wrong (or lying - if we are talking about an evangelizing zealot).
  7. Re:Message to the world ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Be honest...what you're really afraid of is having to miss the weekly stonings and having to take the bag off of your wife's head now, isn't it?

  8. Re:OS is not the problem by Idarubicin · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Just last night, I opened up two PowerPoint presentations (the second even had sound transitional effects that played) with absolutely no problem.

    Actually, that's a bug. Any presentation software that isn't smart enough to strip out transition sound effects isn't worth using.

    Aside: Anybody who uses the 'bounce' effect to bring text or objects on to a slide during a presentation is a waste of oxygen.

    --
    ~Idarubicin