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Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration
An anonymous reader writes "The Swiss canton Solothurn has put a stop to their ongoing migration to Linux. [Original, in German.] The project started in 2001, and has been under harsh public criticism ever since. The responsible CIO resigned this summer. Solothurn plans to convert all desktop computers to Windows 7 in 2011."
Any positive opinion towards an M$ product should not be tolerated
Slashdot is not an open discussion about technology. Could we possibly get an IP ban for the parent as well? There must be an easier way to get rid of these dissenters.
Not sure how much snark is in your post, so apologies if this is a whoosh.
The goal here is to *save* money. You can buy a decent PC (and servers) with all the Microsoft licenses for less than the Mac hardware alone.
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I have to agree ..
Today, Linux is almost identical in GUI to windows. If not easier to use
I have 2 computers at work to choose from to do my daily reports. One has XP, the other is Win7. Both are the such a disappointment. Applications crashing or indefinitely hanging, and both are as slow as molasses in winter. It seems daily I have to do a hard reset to get either to respond just to do 5 minutes of work, which ultimately takes 1/2 hour. This is bad as any hard reset done on a windows system can literally destroy the file system. But what can one do when the thing is hopelessly stuck in an infinite loop?
Makes me wonder here just whom is on the M$ payroll to make such a stupid decision as changing horses midstream, switching from full Linux adoption back to M$ lock in and the malware hell.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
"To see if in the next 3 years they report a massive increase in the number of malware infections."
That's why we need extremely destructive malware to force users to be concerned with security.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
How is this heap of ramblings insightful?
> NTFS still is offering features that takes several layers of software on Linux to copy..."
Kernel has XFS for some, ReiserFS for others, ext4 for the rest of us, and then some: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems. You would score a point if you cited ZFS as a FS with "some fairly advanced features", but NTFS just isn't that advanced among the rest.
> Linux had a huge chance...
Troll. Mod him bloody down someone?
Just because you are a prejudiced prick doesn't mean that AD has an OSS equal.
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Oops, my bad, I attempted to run an application such as Office app and/or web browser.
I suppose it is all my error in trying to do some work instead of just look at the pretty desktop.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
Not my machine. It is a work PC, an OEM Dell if you will .. owned by the large corporation I work for.
Please try posting something useful and helpful instead of stupid
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain