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A Public Library's Linux Success Story
Joe Barr writes "What with the spate of professionally PR-generated FUD coming out of Redmond about Linux not being open source, or Windows having a lower TCO, and - believe it or not - even a claim that Windows is more reliable, it's good to read about some real world, grass-root results of successful migrations from Windows to Linux. This story at NewsForge takes a look at the Howard County (Maryland) Public Library's roll-out of over 200 public-use PCs, which used to run on Windows and now run on a custom Linux distribution called Lumix."
... which side the librarians will come down on when Micro$oft sics their SCO biatches on the public libraries with demands that SCO be compensated for the libraries use of a Linux-derived OS...
"The Internet is made of cats."
We've been hearing announcements of switches for years now. People are moving to Linux, a big win for Linux, so-and-so to migrate to Linux.....and this is merely the 3rd follow-up story that I've seen after years and years of supposed switches. The other two were Munich (cost more than MS and more than expected, took more time, was more complicated) and Ernie Ball (spite switch after BSA raid).
Are all these tons of other switchers happily chugging along on Linux, and Slashdot passed up the opportunity to crow about it? Yeah, I'm sure that's the case.
Why don't we hear what happened in all the other switch attempts? We get a few cherry-picked stories, and that's it.
Kinda sounds like....oh, I dunno.....FUD, maybe?
It's exactly because of zealot-trolls like you why the MS community is so hated. Get a clue.