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Date:      Tue, 31 Dec 2002 09:31:18 +1000
From:      Ian Pulsford <ianjp@hypermax.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: diskless workstation - minimum requirements?
Message-ID:  <3E10D746.D8BF1F9F@hypermax.net.au>
References:  <20021228135828.A26212-100000@m20.unixathome.org> <3E107B16.78D02E29@hypermax.net.au> <20021230203211.GA1743@trot.local>

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George Georgalis wrote:

[...]

> There is more to cost than hardware too...
> 
> http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19
> 
>   - By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller -
> 
>   We're back in Largo, Florida, checking on advances in the Linux-based
>   network they use to run the city's computers that we wrote about last
>   year. True to Largo's "City of Progress" motto, these guys have not
>   been standing still. Now they're talking about Linux-based terminals
>   in all the city's police cars. Microsoft has tried -- and failed -- to
>   bring them into the proprietary fold. And, possibly most important,
>   we have an amazing cost figure that ought to make you ask your local
>   politicians why their IT operations aren't as efficient as Largo's.

The question is what is going to grab the business users eye (and mind
first)?
If Dan could perhaps have the diskless machine running a web browser
with a page of links to articles like this?  Just a suggestion.


Ian

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