well, we have a payroll and a corporate portal running on postgresql on the company i work for, and as an independent consultant i have developed three or four of apps with postgresql.
i've experimented a little with mysql, but my feeling it is not as powerful as postgresql, so i don't considered it in my projects.
agree with you in some points, but i think that the point of using linux and software libre in the education is not only about reducing costs, but it too prepares better to the future 'users', so they're more capable, more trained an better suited to solve the problems they are faced to
in the same vein, in my current work i have some neighbors in the building who are complete computer illiterate, they're using winxp, office, etc, and don't even know how to search for a word in excell or how to stop a printing document, so maybe we can assume that in situations like that, it is the same if you are using excel or openoffice, the users effort is the same
i concede that the gui for final users in linux needs to be more user friendly, but as i pointed to my then sophomores "if you buy a car, and in are driving in the middle of the night in some desertical parage, it is good to know some mechanics, rigth?" so i think the user needs to get a little more technical, true?
once again the known answer, you can get support from the community
i was the reponsible of the computer lab in a little school in mexico about two years ago, we ran linux, staroffice, gnome, kde, gimp, whatever you can name, aside from apache, sendmail, etc., and never run into troubles, nothing gets broked, no virus, etc, etc
oh, and the school owners where extatic about not having to pay a cent in licenses;)
of course, if you take a project like this, you need to know some things, but hey, isn't about learning and having fun with the process?:)
so, maybe it's just a case of knowing what resources you can get from the community, and use them
Well, while i agree in the point about the crackers hanging around in chat channels, i think its not just a "lame" clone. I thik it need to be talken seriously. I work in a little school, and im planning in blowin windows away and deploy Linux in every computer in the lab and offices. I'm not a hacker, not a cracker, i'm jus a person who has discovered the benefits of Linux/Unix and the big potential it has as a platform for limited budget schools (i live in Mexico).
Have you ever tried to run Word 6.0 on DR-DOS 6? Do you smell some unfair practices here?
As I hated the compression algorithm included in DR-DOS (for its slownes and failures), I've founded that DR-DOS was superior in many aspects to MS-DOG.
Funny to see that Gates said DOS was its "gold mine".
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well, we have a payroll and a corporate portal running on postgresql on the company i work for, and as an independent consultant i have developed three or four of apps with postgresql.
i've experimented a little with mysql, but my feeling it is not as powerful as postgresql, so i don't considered it in my projects.
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agree with you in some points, but i think that the point of using linux and software libre in the education is not only about reducing costs, but it too prepares better to the future 'users', so they're more capable, more trained an better suited to solve the problems they are faced to
in the same vein, in my current work i have some neighbors in the building who are complete computer illiterate, they're using winxp, office, etc, and don't even know how to search for a word in excell or how to stop a printing document, so maybe we can assume that in situations like that, it is the same if you are using excel or openoffice, the users effort is the same
i concede that the gui for final users in linux needs to be more user friendly, but as i pointed to my then sophomores "if you buy a car, and in are driving in the middle of the night in some desertical parage, it is good to know some mechanics, rigth?" so i think the user needs to get a little more technical, true?
once again the known answer, you can get support from the community
;)
:)
i was the reponsible of the computer lab in a little school in mexico about two years ago, we ran linux, staroffice, gnome, kde, gimp, whatever you can name, aside from apache, sendmail, etc., and never run into troubles, nothing gets broked, no virus, etc, etc
oh, and the school owners where extatic about not having to pay a cent in licenses
of course, if you take a project like this, you need to know some things, but hey, isn't about learning and having fun with the process?
so, maybe it's just a case of knowing what resources you can get from the community, and use them
Well, while i agree in the point about the crackers hanging around in chat channels, i think its not just a "lame" clone. I thik it need to be talken seriously.
I work in a little school, and im planning in blowin windows away and deploy Linux in every computer in the lab and offices.
I'm not a hacker, not a cracker, i'm jus a person who has discovered the benefits of Linux/Unix and the big potential it has as a platform for limited budget schools (i live in Mexico).
have you tried The GIMP?
Have you ever tried to run Word 6.0 on DR-DOS 6? Do you smell some unfair practices here?
As I hated the compression algorithm included in DR-DOS (for its slownes and failures), I've founded that DR-DOS was superior in many aspects to MS-DOG.
Funny to see that Gates said DOS was its "gold mine".