Hi, On 3 August 2012 10:29, Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep. Presumably changing over to (some less resource intensive version - > i.e. older or non-mainstream - of) Linux would be possible
This is exactly what we are trying at the moment. Thus this means they only need to upgrade the OS, and not the hardware too. In the end saving on costs: Linux is free, more modern OS, and no hardware upgrades required. Hence the reason we started fpGUI - to give them exactly the same look & feel between Windows and Linux. Thus reducing some of the retraining costs. Our clients think of it quit simply as... for every PC not running (eg: during an upgrade), they are loosing money. The the move to Linux is slow, so we still have a lot of Win98 PC's to support. > (Only slightly exaggerating: and if you're stuck with Telkom phone > lines/ADSL or something even worse, I sympathise with people who want to > download Linux CDs). That's why Mac products are so not meant for Africa! Apple expects people to download 1Gig OS updates (all updates now only being digital). They should visit Africa to see what a stupid idea that is. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
