From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 16:19:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D02516A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:19:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D834443D39 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@incubus.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (pD954260D.dip.t-dialin.net [217.84.38.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05BA2E0B8 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:19:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420E2CA6.3010003@incubus.de> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:19:50 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <420E148D.1070306@incubus.de> <311372449.20050212160755@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <311372449.20050212160755@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:19:31 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: >>Or the city administration of Munich, which intends to move its >>Windows desktops to a Linux/KDE-based installation. > Why not just burn taxpayer euro in a bonfire? It would have the same > end result and it would be faster. Well, if you just run a set of 1-3 applications, and don't do anything else with the computer, there shouldn't be much of a difference. Think, for example, of the software that the clerks feed applications for driving licenses or passports into. That's (most likely) one do-it-all software running on the terminal-like PC all the time. Or a secretary, using some kind of office software (I don't know if they consider OpenOffice). Apart from making a political statement, the advantage is of course being independent from the Microsoft update cycle. Of course whether it's cheaper having the inhouse staff or a consulting firm update the Linux desktops needs to be evaluated first (and I'm sure they did). Another point, as far as I got it, was security, i.e., higher resilience towards worms and viruses.