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350,000 Linux (Virtual) Desktops Land In Brazil
xufem writes "Millions of Brazilian schoolchildren will soon be 'brought up right' running Linux on over 350,000 seats each using PC sharing hardware and software from Userful and KDE. This is world's largest virtual desktop deployment and probably also the world's largest Linux deployment, and seems to have been selected over OLPC by Brazil. Definitely a moment to celebrate — and just in time for Brazilian Carnival which starts tomorrow!"
Oh, I can rant about Windows too. My biggest issue with Windows is security; Micorsoft had no business having Windows XP run autorun.inf without thinking from removable writable media; this is one of the most common vectors for moving viruses from computer to computer.
Yes, it can be turned off but requires register voodoo so arcane even Microsoft's own security bulletins get it wrong at times.
I also don't like the way the system, over time takes longer and longer and longer to start up after logging in. My old system originally could start up right away after logging in; after a year and a half of bit rot, it took about three minutes after logging in before I could actually do any work in Windows XP.
So yes, Windows has a lot of issues too. And, yes, I think I will try out Mandrivia and Fedora Core and CentOS 5.3 when it comes out and maybe even Mepis. The nice thing about Linux is that there is choice, and maybe there is a desktop distribution that won't need a bunch of band-aids before being a desktop I can do my work on.