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Korea Plans to Choose Linux City, University
thefirelane wrote to mention an ambitious plan in the works by the South Korean government. Work is underway to choose a city, which will become a place where open-source software will become the mainstream operating system. From the article: "The selected government and university will be required to install open-source software as a main operating infrastructure, for which the MIC will support with funds and technologies. In the long run, they will have to migrate most of their desktop and notebook computers away from the Windows program of Microsoft, the world's biggest maker of software. 'The test beds will prompt other cities and universities to follow suit through the showcasing of Linux as the major operating system without any technical glitches and security issues,' Lee said. "
only old people can spell 'Korea'.
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Many people like to point out that Linux is difficult to install/set up and windows isn't, this is completely untrue. Windows usually comes preinstalled and set up with default options from the manufacturer. If you want linux you have to wipe the computer and install from scratch. If it were the other way around, and all computers came with linux everyone would be saying the opposite, that windows is hard to install and linux is easy (because it is actually already installed). The fact that the average user never actually installs or sets up windows makes it seem like windows set up is a snap.
The users that do reinstall windows usually do it wrong. They don't know how to format the drive, and usually end up just installing over the current winOS and keeping all their corrupted, virus ridden files that they had before. This eventually comes back to bite them in the ass. I have seen this many times.
Windows set up is not easy, it's just that noone does it. They leave all the services running that they do not need, and allow windows to run 100 programs on startup. After 2 years they are so bogged down with malware and other things they installed running on startup that it takes 5 minutes to get into windows and have the hard drive start idling. This is incredibly frustrating. So they buy a new windows computer because it is so easy to set up, and they continue the cycle.