City Of Toronto

[Howard Gibson]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:08:49 -0500
Phillip Mills <pmills-5bG9SNWDbRX3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I haven't noticed any messages lately about efforts to get a Linux 
> foothold at the City of Toronto.  Anyone interested should read an 
> article on page A14 of this morning's Globe & Mail.
> 
> Quote:
> "The city's problem is that 14,000 of its 17,500 computers are of 1999 
> vintage or older, which means that the operating system they run on is 
> Microsoft Windows NT, a program which the software company will no 
> longer support after some time next year, and they do not have the 
> capacity to run on the next generation of software, Windows XP, which 
> the city plans to switch to."
> 
> Tortured grammar aside, how many things "wrong" can *you* find in that 
> sentence?  :-)

Phillip,

   My 1998 computer works okay as long as I do not launch KDE.  I have added a lot of RAM since I bought the thing, 64MB to 256MB.  My second hand laptop has 64MB of RAM.  I am running Red Hat 8 on both machines.

   I am here to tell you that 64MB is not enough for Red Hat 8.  If I cannot get more than 64MB into the laptop, this will be its final upgrade.

   I suspect that if you install the latest version of Linux onto these old machines, you will teach a bunch of people to hate Linux.   A clever administrator may get these machines to work efficiently, but new machines are probably easier and more reliable, Linux or no Linux.
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