Rome Moving to Linux 231
fmstasi writes "La Repubblica, one of the main Italian newspapers, reports shortly about an interview (in Italian) with Mariella Gramaglia, Communication Councillor at the Municipality of Rome. They are planning to start soon trying Linux on the desktop: 'The first tests will concern e-mail, address book software and sharing systems', she says. The Councillor also says that motivations are political rather than economic: 'In the short term, the money saved on license will have to be spent on training'. It seems that there haven't been any reaction yet from Microsoft: 'At Microsoft they know how much we esteem them', she says; 'for example, they are sponsoring a campaign to spread the use of computers among the elderly. And we'll keep on cooperating with them on other projects'. Maybe Microsoft also appreciates that there is (yet) no project of migrating all the clients? The Municipality has about 9,500 clients, so an eventual migration project would be slightly smaller than the one taking place in Munich."
Next thing you know, (Score:5, Funny)
Insert standard joke (Score:5, Funny)
(Sorry.)
Rome Moving to Linux? (Score:5, Funny)
Hopefully we can shift London to where Rome was before and finally get some decent weather.
Rome GA uses Linux (Score:5, Funny)
It's a fact that things that piss us off, we do not like to continue to use. And well, you know how Italians are... Sorry Microsoft; better them use a different product than yours, than them holding a Godfather-shootout in your HQ in Redmond.
Can you..... (Score:5, Funny)
"The Common one of Rome ahead slowly towards Linux"
Can you move from M$ to Linux and still kiss M$ ass in the same article??? For the first time I really noticed it in an article.
Re:I can't wait for the day (Score:5, Funny)
So that means... (Score:4, Funny)
Are you Corn Fed? [ebay.com]
Well ofcourse (Score:5, Funny)
Way to go Pope (Score:5, Funny)
Tux's new motto (Score:5, Funny)
Roamin' Fingers (Score:1, Funny)
Hey! (Score:4, Funny)
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
uh oh (Score:4, Funny)
Unfortunately... (Score:4, Funny)
To bad its not the City not the Church (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rome GA uses Linux (Score:5, Funny)
As much as I really like Linux and would like to see Rome using it, I think I'd still rather see a Mafia shootout in Redmond.
New Linux motto (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Trying or Doing? (Score:5, Funny)
> telnet www.mafia.it 80
Trying 212.78.66.135...
Connected to www.mafia.it.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:53:50 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:41:36 GMT
ETag: "18094-5e-3e8b04b0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 94
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
Re:Insert standard joke (Score:5, Funny)
[caesar@router:/root]# ping -c II CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV
PING CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV (CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV) from CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.XVII : LVI(LXXXIV) bytes of data.
LXIV bytes from CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV: icmp_seq=I ttl=CCLIV time=I ms
LXIV bytes from CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV: icmp_seq=II ttl=CCLIV time=I ms
--- CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV ping statistics ---
II packets transmitted, II received, no loss, time MVIIms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = I/I/I/none ms
my inner voice (Score:3, Funny)
Did anybody else find themselves reading the article like they were practicing for a role on the Soprano's?
I didn't do it on purpose, but halfway through the article I thought to myself "Self, why are we reading with this ridiculous accent?" Crazy, huh?
Updated version of an old joke (Score:5, Funny)
The good news, he tells the Pontiff, is that the Vatican has received an email from God himself!
The bad news is that they've traced the IP address to an ISP in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Re:I can't wait for the day (Score:3, Funny)
And they'll be in Washington because Microsoft sued them under Sherman A-T.
But the judge will say: 'It wasn't them kept you out of their markets - it was your inferior software!'
And then we'll all have a party. Again.
Re:I can't wait for the day (Score:5, Funny)
Good. I'm glad you remembered that Rome wasn't ported in a day.
Re:I can't wait for the day (Score:3, Funny)
Grizzled old MS vets will pine for the days when people really knew how to get inside the registry, and writing a good VBScript wasn't a foreign concept.
Re:Trying or Doing? (Score:3, Funny)
For some reason, that message seems more ominous in that context.
Maximus Linus (Score:2, Funny)
Gatesius: Would you, Quintus? Would I?
Not the Vatican... (Score:3, Funny)
In that case... (Score:3, Funny)
Kjella
Et tu Roma (Score:3, Funny)
And to help the Italians communicate.... (Score:4, Funny)
Yet more barbarian invaders from north of the Alps (Score:2, Funny)
No big deal: in Rome, they're used to this.
Re:How long? (Score:5, Funny)
Probably some time after they notice how much they're saving by using metric measures. I'm amazed that the US actually has a decimal currency -- with the conservative attitudes they have to these things I'd expect they'd still be using pieces of eight (though that's what "two bits" refers to).
Re:Tux's new motto (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A great success story of Linux on the desktop.. (Score:3, Funny)
They switch the name of openwriter to "Cervantes", the famous Spanish writer, author of Don Quijote. They did the same for all of the applications and
I don't know about you, but I'd find it quite confusing if every application was named "Cervantes".
The Vatican will never go for it... (Score:3, Funny)
I can't resist (Score:2, Funny)
You may now groan.
Re:Next thing you know, (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like a lot of work (Score:3, Funny)
Deano says (Score:2, Funny)
Arividerci Microsoft...
Does this mean... (Score:5, Funny)
Poor Steve! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:When in Rome (Score:1, Funny)
Waiting for the tooltip to appear, I guess.
Re:When in Rome (Score:2, Funny)
Icons causing mass hysteria? In Rome? Makes sense, I suppose -- last time that happened, we ended up with the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
E.
another victory (Score:2, Funny)
"Germany is freed", "we've captured rome"
anyone want to photoshop a map?