[juneau-lug] Re: [luau] A Mission For Luau]

  • From: Jacob Gemmell <evilbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Juneau Linux Users Group <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 01:31:39 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 1 May 2002, James Zuelow wrote:

> We're doing some initial exploration into setting up a similar program
> here in Juneau, but there are a lot of issues to be hashed out.  Most of
> these are no-brainers, but I'll bring them up anyway:

Is there any organization is particular that you have in mind?  I received
a call from the Tlingit & Haida Community Council (I think it was them)
who said they were calling around to various state departments find out
what OS we were using and whether we would recommend Windows XP.  Having
not used XP, I told them that Windows 2000 was what we were using and
would probably be the safer choice.  In retrospect, I wish I had inqured
as to whether they had considered Linux as a viable option.

>
> --Not every non-profit/church wants a 100% Linux solution, especially if
> nobody at the organization is familiar with it.  You need to consider
> working with other operating systems (Samba and Netatalk immediately
> come to mind).  Therefore members of the Church of Linux who view any
> proprietary OS as something to be exorcised (you know who you are) might
> not be the best front men for the project.  Pragmatism is the rule.
>
Heathen!! Blasphemer!!  Heretic!!  I know you have been using Outlook
Express.

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

I have seen your headers!!  Confess!!  Confess I tell you!!

All joking aside.  Some of the small organization that I have seen and
worked with (several of the fishing lobbies around town) have little to no
technical support, and even less of a budget to spend on IT.  One thing
that freaked me out was when I went to a couple of them and saw that they
had thier entire network (2 to 3 desktops) full of Windows shares (full
read write access for everyone ) hangin directly off a cable modem.  What
was worse what all the applications they had installed, and lack of
patches they had applied.  Spyware, and trojans, and virii, Oh my!!
Dropping in a firewall and maybe a Samba server would be a real help.
Teaching the importance of keeping systems and Antivirus programs updated
would be even better.  And of course not having them every neat looking
tool and toy on the internet would nice.  Why is it that every program
that say it would double the speed of my computer slows it to a crawl?

Having a little security and a common place to share files is all a lot of
them need.  Maybe a desktop running Gnome with AbiWord and Gnumeric would
be nice too.


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