[frgeek-michiana] Linux in local government???

Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 09 Nov 2002 19:27:16 -0500

fyi from Goose.

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael W. Holdeman" <ptfd9100@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <members@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Linux in local government???

> Not exactly the info you are probably interested in but here is 
> what I've got.
>
> I am the only full time employee of my Rural township in Southwestern
> lower michigan. I am a Fire chief for the Twp, we provide fire and EMS 
> protection for 2 very rural Twp.'s here.

> The Twp office certianly is not interested, but here at the FD I have 4
> machines all running Linux.
>
>   1 FW-Gateway for the ISP(dialup) connection. COL 2.4
>   1 File server (FreeBSD 4.6)
>   2 Desktops Gentoo 1.2, KDE3.0.4, kernel 2.4.19, Win4Lin4 (win98SE in W4L)
>   1 Laptop Gentoo 1.2, (as above)
>
> All running on a 10-bT ethernet. The ,machines are all pentium and PIII
> machines 400-500mhz.
>
> I use the system for E-mail, web page maint. Word Processing, (Koffice),
> spreadsheets, presentations etc... (Kword), Same stuff you all use yours 
> for.
>
> I'm having problems with kpilot, and korganizer, kaddressbook. and am
> currently resorting to Win for the palm sync stuff. As well as several 
> Fire Department reporting, inspection, Preplan, and recordkeeping apps
written
> specifically for the windows platform, unfortutunately it is difficult to
> convince app developers in this market that they should cross develop for 
> the Linux platform. In this area Win4Lin works very well. I have access
to the
> serial port for sending reports to the state, and it is more robust and
> stable than win natively, with very near performance, sometimes better.
>
> I dunno if this is any info you are interested in or not.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On Friday 08 November 2002 12:08 pm, Taz wrote:
> > LOL!!!
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > Doc Rea wrote:
> > > Because those little old ladies who run the polls will bust your
> > > kneecaps if you don't follow the rules ;}
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 00:41, Taz wrote:
> > > > Bruce,
> > > >
> > > > Why don't you go back ans ask?
> > > >
> > > > Bruce
> >
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> --
> Michael W. Holdeman
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