On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:08:49 -0500 Phillip Mills <pmills-5bG9SNWDbRX3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

I haven't noticed any messages lately about efforts to get a Linux foothold at the City of Toronto. Anyone interested should read an article on page A14 of this morning's Globe & Mail.

Quote: "The city's problem is that 14,000 of its 17,500 computers are of 1999 vintage or older, which means that the operating system they run on is Microsoft Windows NT, a program which the software company will no longer support after some time next year, and they do not have the capacity to run on the next generation of software, Windows XP, which the city plans to switch to."

Tortured grammar aside, how many things "wrong" can *you* find in that sentence? :-)

Phillip, My 1998 computer works okay as long as I do not launch KDE. I have added a lot of RAM since I bought the thing, 64MB to 256MB. My second hand laptop has 64MB of RAM. I am running Red Hat 8 on both machines. I am here to tell you that 64MB is not enough for Red Hat 8. If I cannot get more than 64MB into the laptop, this will be its final upgrade. I suspect that if you install the latest version of Linux onto these old machines, you will teach a bunch of people to hate Linux. A clever administrator may get these machines to work efficiently, but new machines are probably easier and more reliable, Linux or no Linux. -- Howard Gibson hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org howard-42qnO8ePF9cV+D8aMU/kSg at public.gmane.org http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml