Financial reasons would be my first guess as to why it's happening in a small town. I was just pointing out that it has more of a chance of being successful because it's a small town. What political reasons were you thinking of?
Steamboat Springs, CO may be having a great time moving to Linux, but it helps a lot that it's such a small community. The logistic problems are nowhere near the level they would be if a major metropolis tried to move all their systems to Linux. I think it's a great move, but there's a reason it's happening in a small town in Colorado rather than one of the cities with a high concentration of technology companies.
As somebody who's actually had to deal with this, exposing my sister technology from the time she was 4 years old on was one of the best things I ever did for her. I gave her a really old labtop, no internet connection (no ethernet ports and I removed the modem), no usb ports. Just Windows 95, a word processor, and paint. The important thing is getting kids used to the technology mindset so that they'll be equipped to fully take advantage of it when they're older. When I was younger, just using the File Manager on Windows 3.1 served me amazingly well later on in life.
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Financial reasons would be my first guess as to why it's happening in a small town. I was just pointing out that it has more of a chance of being successful because it's a small town. What political reasons were you thinking of?
Steamboat Springs, CO may be having a great time moving to Linux, but it helps a lot that it's such a small community. The logistic problems are nowhere near the level they would be if a major metropolis tried to move all their systems to Linux. I think it's a great move, but there's a reason it's happening in a small town in Colorado rather than one of the cities with a high concentration of technology companies.
As somebody who's actually had to deal with this, exposing my sister technology from the time she was 4 years old on was one of the best things I ever did for her. I gave her a really old labtop, no internet connection (no ethernet ports and I removed the modem), no usb ports. Just Windows 95, a word processor, and paint. The important thing is getting kids used to the technology mindset so that they'll be equipped to fully take advantage of it when they're older. When I was younger, just using the File Manager on Windows 3.1 served me amazingly well later on in life.