in response to:
>> Surely you can concede that Linux is growing, not stagnant or shrinking?
MM said:
>Not on the desktop is isn't, where most of these kids will be working.
but they're *not* working on the desktop they are using a 'thin client'** -
which is my objection to this as a pro-linux story ...
that and the fact that someone who 'loves the OS' apparently can't come up
with a script to grant privs
** they don't appear to say *which* client - just that 'the OS ... is not
built for the thin client'
It may be I'm a bit sensitive about 'thin clients' - my employers are in
the process of rolling out Wyse terminals + Citrix to replace 95% of pc's
("what goes around comes around" - but sometimes in reverse! - one of the
factors that did lead to the takeup of [IBM] pc's was that they could
replace dumb terminals, and were cheaper. The Wyse terminals are now
cheaper - but not much, it's really all a control thing.
Andrew Davies MBCS CITP
- AndyD 8-)#
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