Brazilian Education Ministry Dumps Windows

[MidnightCowboy]

A very interesting move.

http://www2.mandriva.com/en/news/press/?p=145

[garth]

I hope other governments are paying attention.

[Jeff91]

Russia announced they where also making the move to Linux in 2011

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russi...1-175051.shtml

~Jeff

[MidnightCowboy]

Thanks Jeff, I also understand the excellent Turkish KDE based Pardus is widely adopted by educational institutions and some government departments in that country. I had a brief look at the English version a few months back and really liked their approach to making the basic setup easier.

[wdhpr]

Originally Posted by garth

I hope other governments are paying attention.

I bet Microsoft is.

[garth]

Originally Posted by wdhpr

I bet Microsoft is.

I bet they are too

[MidnightCowboy]

LOL, I don't think it will make any difference to Microsoft here, well in financial terms anyway.

There are legit boxed versions of Windows 7 gathering dust in the "informatica" stores but pirated copies cost $5. The whole university where my wife works runs on pirated Vista.

I tried to buy an English language version of W7 instead of having to botch this with an Ultimate translation pack and couldn't get one, even in Rio. The risk of having one sent from overseas is too great considering the amount of thievery within the mail service so I gave up.

[1002richards]

Here are 50 other big linux users:
http://www.focus.com/fyi/information...ht-not-expect/

including:
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet
The City of Munich
Federal Aviation Administration
Government of Mexico City
Russian Schools
Switzerland Schools
and not forgetting ......... Google

[wdhpr]

Simply amazing.

[bibzgi]

I'm curious about India and China. How much do those countries use linux-based operating systems or intend to use them in the future?

See: http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/jun/27sd1.htm

With many support specialists for the MS-based operating system in India, I have a feeling that Indian computer technicians are mainly if not almost entirely oriented toward Windows.

It would be nice to hear feedback from TSA members who live in India and China on this topic.

Personally, this graying American only switched to Linux recently and out of necessity (the dang proprietary MS OS was too frustrating to back up blah blah). I love linux and I'm glad I took the plunge.

Good topic, MC, and good comments.