Re: Is Linux Unix?
Incoming from Silvan:
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> > *my* rep for shooting it down. I wonder if she realizes that Portland
> > Public Schools wouldn't have to have the teachers work for four weeks
> > for free to keep the schools open if it weren't for her idiocy.
>
> Going further off the topic here, that sparked a thought of my own.
>
> My local school system has a pretty snazzy county-wide network. All the
> schools are wired to some obscenely gigantic pipe, and all the networking
> guts stuff (router/firewall/proxy/filter) is done with Linux (RH probably).
> Yet all the end user machines (several per classroom) are running expensive
> copies of Windows with expensive copies of all manner of expensive software.
Actually, being schools, they're probably getting a huge discount.
Still a lot of money, I know. The important thing for MS is, the kids
are getting hooked early and will grow up expecting it.
"Goddamn, the pusher man."
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