Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 18:46 2/12/01 +1100, Terry Collins wrote: > >Tony Green wrote: > > > > > > > > Can someone please give me the long/lat for slug-chat???? > > > >Remember that post on IT balance of trade? > >When you consider that the average costs per first installation/seat for > >each government department would be over $250,000, plus $10,000 for each > >extra office and roughly 20% each year in licence and training fees, > >there is a very good reason for development of facilities in Linux. > > But do you *really* think that politicians and/or their office staff > can be taught to use something like KDE / Gnome / CDE / whatever ? > Most of them have trouble with Windows, for crying out loud.
well, i don't know about that. i custom-roll my desktop, running sawfish, etc with no panel. everything's done with shortcut keys. the other day i tried "startx", and it loads up the entire KDE system. it's very pretty :) i was suprised how "usable" it felt in comparison to something like windows. i agree with what you're saying though. open standards are more important than what operating system each computer is running. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
