City Of Toronto

[Fraser Campbell]

On December 27, 2003 01:23 pm, Howard Gibson wrote:

>    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.

Desktop installs are a waste of time for any organization of significant size. 
For thin client installs older PCs (probably even 486s) are more than capable 
of running the latest and greatest stuff, you just run the heavy stuff on the 
server.

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Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>                 http://www.wehave.net/
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux

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