On 11/06/13 23:17, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
a gnu/linux
admin could manage over more units, so turned out cheaper.
That is - sort of - most certainly my personal experience. I help a
big bunch of friends etc who, in the 'friends and family' network,
looked to me to help them get
Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
A) I do not know about your local libraries but mine are still on
windowsxp. So they will have to replace it soon with win8. And that
has a steeper learning curve than any of the most common distros. B)
If Windows 8 does have a prohibitively-steep learning curve
On 12/06/13 12:43, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
A) I do not know about your local libraries but mine are still on
windowsxp. So they will have to replace it soon with win8. And that
has a steeper learning curve than any of the most common distros. B)
If Windows 8 does
Paul Sutton wrote:
On 12/06/13 12:43, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Appart from canonical who could provide the service? And why is windows
service
cheaper than gnu/linux distros? I thought the reasoning was that one
gnu/linux
admin was more expensive than a
On 10/06/13 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
My local library is one of the only libraries that is actually getting
bigger in the near future. One of the improvements is that they are going
to install some new computers. I
On 10 June 2013 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.eswrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
My local library is one of the only libraries that is actually getting
bigger in the near future. One of the improvements is that they are going
to
Simon Greenwood wrote:
This is the way things are going to go as outsourcing becomes the
norm and unless councils find a good reason to adopt FLOSS (and cost
doesn't seem to be one, despite what we're told about making
savings), it isn't going to change.
Cost is one reason - it's more
Dear All
In more than 10 years of working with public sector organisations I have never
found any appetite to change from Microsoft products, no matter how the case
for open source alternatives is made.
Partly it is because many public/civil servants have not the faintest awareness
of any
On 11/06/13 09:28, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Simon Greenwood wrote:
This is the way things are going to go as outsourcing becomes the
norm and unless councils find a good reason to adopt FLOSS (and cost
doesn't seem to be one, despite what we're told about making
savings), it isn't going to
This is the way things are going to go as outsourcing becomes the
norm and unless councils find a good reason to adopt FLOSS (and cost
doesn't seem to be one, despite what we're told about making
savings), it isn't going to change.
Cost is one reason - it's more expensive to support a
On 11/06/13 10:30, Nigel Verity wrote:
Dear All
In more than 10 years of working with public sector organisations I
have never found any appetite to change from Microsoft products, no
matter how the case for open source alternatives is made.
Partly it is because many public/civil servants
I think it'll all be largely irrelevant in a few years... with more and
more functionality moving from OS to browser/cloud the operating system is
becoming less and less important.
Sean
--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
On 11/06/13 09:20, Simon Greenwood wrote:
it isn't going to change.
It will change if people act to encourage and promote change.
The library now using Open Office not MS is the same one which
displayed my FLOSS leaflets regularly over the previous 2 years. Maybe
they actually read them?
El 11/06/2013 23:39, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com escribió:
On 11/06/13 09:20, Simon Greenwood wrote:
it isn't going to change.
It will change if people act to encourage and promote change.
The library now using Open Office not MS is the same one which displayed
my FLOSS leaflets
Hello all,
I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
My local library is one of the only libraries that is actually getting
bigger in the near future. One of the improvements is that they are going
to install some new computers. I asked if there was a chance of it being a
good chance
On 10/06/13 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
My local library is one of the only libraries that is actually getting
bigger in the near future. One of the improvements is that they are
going to install some new computers. I
El 10/06/2013 23:58, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net escribió:
On 10/06/13 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
My local library is one of the only libraries that is actually getting
bigger in the near future. One of the
On 10/06/13 23:25, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
El 10/06/2013 23:58, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net
mailto:zl...@zleap.net escribió:
On 10/06/13 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
My local library is one of the
El 11/06/2013 00:27, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net escribió:
On 10/06/13 23:25, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
El 10/06/2013 23:58, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net
mailto:zl...@zleap.net escribió:
On 10/06/13 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping some of
On 10 June 2013 22:54, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.eswrote:
Hello all,
I was hoping some of you could help me clear this up.
My local library is one of the only libraries that is actually getting
bigger in the near future. One of the improvements is that they are going
to
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