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Linux At School
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Stryker ---wait, you can download an exe but not a pdf?
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No it won't allow exes, but ActiveX controls load ok.
Some PDFs load ok and some are blocked by the fire wall. The IT department say the PDF with embedded jpeg/gif images are disallowed.
PacKiN 1i1 SoMeThiN 4 BG:
Knoppix kicks butt too! :tux:
pulsechild:
I keep hearing that IBM (because they took the side of Red Hat in the RH Vs. SCO battle) is going to move away from Win and use Linux. If that is true, don't you think Linux would slowly show up in schools anyways considering, atleast from where I live, all school computer are IBMs? I'm in high school and I'd think colleges would use IBMs too. I mean, switching to Linux would be an awesome idea. More security, less costs, less problems, more built for networking, less hardware requirments, and a lot of the software they'd have to buy for Windows (like MS Office) is FREE with Linux.
I mean, for all we are allowed to do with the computers anyways, you wouldn't need to know ANYTHING about Linux. Opening programs and files and whatnot is virtually the same on linux as it is in Windows.
Besides, our schools use Novell, so why not use SuSE and everyone will realize why Novell makes shitty software for Windows :rolleyes:
Calum:
linux users always make this mistake of believing IBM's hype, just because you see IBM staff interviewed in linux magazines means nothing.
their linux stuff is probably simply supposed to replace AIX, with no intention of changing the users of windows over to linux. IBM even use windows machines (on IBM hardware though) as standard for their employees (i know this having worked last year onsite at the IBM office here).
IBM has its own view of the world, and they won't be jumping on any linux bandwagon any time soon. same with Sun Microsystems, you can't expect a corporation which, let's face it, got where they are today by being self serving, to continue to scratch the back of Linux forever.
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: Calum ---their linux stuff is probably simply supposed to replace AIX, with no intention of changing the users of windows over to linux. IBM even use windows machines (on IBM hardware though) as standard for their employees (i know this having worked last year onsite at the IBM office here).
IBM has its own view of the world, and they won't be jumping on any linux bandwagon any time soon. same with Sun Microsystems, you can't expect a corporation which, let's face it, got where they are today by being self serving, to continue to scratch the back of Linux forever.
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Calum, I don't normally do this, but you've left quite a few logical fallacies intact in your counterpoint. First, you're confusing middle management with company-wide decisions. IBM is expanding their Linux userbase, mostly because of wider-spread demand for support by their products. That doesn't mean that individual jobsite managers (for example, at the office where you worked) are unable to decide for themselves whether to use Windows or Linux. Most are going to gravitate towards Windows, however, because of established precedent, not because of a company-wide decision.
Bear in mind that IBM was a huge purchaser of UNIX in its prime, and even came up with their own OS (Warp) to compete with it - ultimately being double-crossed by Microsoft in the development process. That being said, I wholly expect that if IBM sees a strong competitor to Windows they'll jump on it at the first opportunity (don't forget the whole SCO debacle - they were involved there, if only on the investment side). Also, don't badmouth Sun until they've proven their greed. They've done more for the FOSS community than most other companies of comparable size, and were quite possibly the first to adopt Linux on any kind of wide-scale deployment basis. Just because they want clients, that doesn't make them inherently evil. If that were true, then I would need to report back to His Dark Majesty as soon as I finish posting here. As would most of the rest of us.
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