When I asked "Can anyone point me to a "library like" resource
recognizing that Micro$oft has competition?", I thought there would so
few examples I never considered a web search. My bad ;{
Did a DuckDuckGo search and received pages of hits.
Thanks.
On 06/17/2018 09:20 PM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:
Kalispell's library has changed... A lot... Since I was last there. BUT, I
wasn't the only one to take note of their Linux based systems:
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/libraries/
As for Reno... It does look like Linux has continued to be a priority since
I was last paying attention:
https://www.washoecountylibrary.us/about/reports-files/Washoe%2520County%2520Library%2520Technology%2520Plan%2520Dec%25202013%2520final.pdf
But no one has talked about it... Searching their event listing for terms
like "OpenOffice," "Linux," and "FOSS" don't bring any current results, and
this was the most recent article I could find:
http://thisisreno.com/2010/02/library-schedules-open-source-software-information-sessions/
There is also a Library Freedom Project, promoting Linux in libraries.
https://libraryfreedomproject.org/gnulinuxinthelibrary/
There is also Koha, an enterprise-class library management software that is
both open source and runs on Linux: https://koha-community.org
A quick Google search suggests libraries all over the country offering all
kinds of classes and programs and attempts to save money using Linux...
I mean... A little bit of imagination and your favorite search engine
should be arsenal enough for you to blow yourself up with...
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 18:30 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
ROFL^^GRIN^^SNICKER
Can you give me links?
I intend to fight with a bureaucracy. Need ammo ;/
On 06/17/2018 05:41 PM, Tyrell Jentink wrote:
I don't consider this to be off topic...
But aren't you the one that lives (Several states) east of Estacada? How
is
any advice I'm about to give going to help anyone? In light of that...
The county libraries in Reno, NV offer classes in open source software.
Last I looked (Erm... Several years ago), it was "Mostly" OpenOffice.org
and Firefox literacy, but they promised to teach them on Linux
machines...
So maybe it matured well.
The county libraries in Kalispell, MT don't even HAVE windows computers
(Or, they didn't when I was last there, again, several years ago);
Everything was based on multiple terminal nodes plugged into central
servers running Linux (As early as 2006, no less!), And they also offered
classes...
So... I guess if "libraries that know Microsoft has competition" are what
your after... Yes, they exist.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 15:29 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
I have two questions I wish to discuss.
Both likely push the limits of being "On Topic".
Is there a forum on which either (preferably *BOTH*) would be "On
Topic"?
The more general question
On my last visit to our local public library I picked up a glossy 16
page four color brochure titled _Free Computer Training and Professional
Development Resources_ .
In that brochure the word "Mac" occurs twice. "Linux" *NEVER* occurs.
Keyboarding skills are mentioned. They also ask the question "Does
grammar matter?"
Can anyone point me to a "library like" resource recognizing that
Micro$oft has competition?
There has to be somebody with more "academic integrity".
My second question has only a temporal relationship to above.
For IDIOSYNCRATIC and weird local constraints I am working on networking
*TWO* computers via a "USB MASTER-USB MASTER" cable. There are
"cookbook"{sic/sick}" for "normal"(sic) users with ethernet.
I've been asking questions on a distro specific list.
The predominant response is *DON'T*
Ignoring the *TRIVIAL* aspects of technical(sick) aspects
I wish to do XYZ, That the rest of world does pqrz is *IRRELEVANT*
I have already found *EDUCATIONAL* value in chosen path.
Where may I ask *MY* questions without being told to "get lost"?
TIA
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