Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What kinds of business use Linux? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:09:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <914bpfFejeU6@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="K6+BQqSILSZJR91sypMrIg"; logging-data="492"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19jSLr38N8o5Cbme2jroP/lLbn4g330cwE=" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:L1ozNIB9TcbkH7OeFdblpS1zrHA= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:812 Todd wrote: > On 04/18/2011 07:53 PM, ray wrote: >> One that you've probably not thought of: public libraries. Most are now >> providing public access computers for their patrons. Things run much more >> smoothly and economically if those computers run Linux. Most patrons will >> not even note the difference - many will think it's just a 'new windows'. > > We have a nice public library. Never thought of it. I wonder if > I have to be related to someone? > > Thank you! > > -T > > p.s. the users will get suspicious when they don't crash. > > p.s.s home users are pretty much out: no iTunes and no substitute > will be accepted. My kids will be getting linux on some old laptops. They'll likely to get Android phones in a few years when they're old enough, but should the need arise, they will have a copy of Win2K in KVM (VM) for stuff like that. Schoolwork will be done in LibreOffice and if anything from the school fails to open, I personally will send it back to the school with a stroppy note. But I've not seen any "ordinary"[1] MS docs fail to open in OO for a long time so I don't think it will be an issue. [1] Big spreadsheets full of macros excepted. Even I occasionally need MS Windows, but KVM suffices - and it is surprising how much stuff runs under WINE these days. Cheers, Tim -- Tim Watts