[ale] Georgia Computing Standards Explicitly Disallow Linux

[Jeff Hubbs]

Actually, there's nothing here that specifically disallows Linux; is
just say that it isn't approved.  Where does it say that they have to
approve every thing I do if I'm a state employee.  Besides, you can
always just run one of the BSDs and sidestep the semantic distinction
entirely.

- Jeff

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 20:03, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> Jonathan Glass wrote:
> 
> >http://gta.georgia.gov/vgn/images/portal/cit_1210/3028951Workstation_OS_Standard-FINAL.pdf
> >
> >Yuck!
> >  
> >
>    Who wrote that load of crap? Even if they wanted to go
> with Windows they could have written a better document.
> Why not at least go with Windows XP? I hope they like
> paying massive upgrade fees! Bill and Steve need some
> cash! How are they going to push the daily load of
> patches to these boxes? I bet they're also going to use
> Outlook and Exchange. You can bet that they won't be
> configured even remotely correctly. The spam will start
> rolling in on the first day and only get worse. Of course,
> us  taxpayers will get screwed with the costs because of
> their stupidity. I hope someone got a nice new card or
> house for this. Sigh....
>    I also wonder who these desktops are intended for? If
> it's people like secretaries, or general clerks use them
> then there is absolutely no reason they need Windows
> or Office. Of course, they probably didn't do any testing
> or profiling of required tasks. Sigh... How come IT
> seems to have a disproportionate share of idiots?
> (don't be too fast with those comments by the way) :)
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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