
Where is Largest Linux Desktop Install? 606
jackb_guppy asks: "Talking with Managers about Linux Training for staff. One asked a simple question: 'Where is the largest installed base of Linux desktops?' My guess the question was asked prove that there is no market, and I am unable to find an answer. I am guessing the next question will be: 'Largest site using Linux to replace MS desktops?' Anyone have a suggestion?" Just for fun, if any of you have Linux Desktops deployed in your department, can you give us some numbers?
That gov't article a while back (Score:2, Informative)
--Angus
The city of Largo, FL has switched (Score:5, Informative)
Development Shop (Score:3, Informative)
Re:That gov't article a while back (Score:2, Informative)
Nope. They were replacing CDE with KDE. The article on the dot can be found here [kde.org], and I can't find the article on Slashdot on Google, and Slashdot's seach is *still* broken.
"The City of Largo is a thin client/X shop [which supports] 400 thin client devices that support X, 800 total users, and run about 230 concurrently during the heaviest part of the day."
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Evan
HP uses linux... (Score:4, Informative)
Korean Air? (Score:4, Informative)
Seoul, Korea, July 16, 2001 -- Korean Air, Korea's national flagship airline, and IBM today announced that Korean Air has completed the first phase of developing its core business applications running on Linux for the IBM.
Korean Air's Flight Schedule Enquiry System and the Daily Revenue Accounting System employ Linux on IBM hardware and software.
The enquiry system provides flight crew members with on-line real-time flight schedule information, which they can update anytime. More than 3,000 Korean Air pilots and flight attendants are currently using the system.
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I also heard some talk about the government of Mexico, but that was recently and there may not have been progress there.
The hope lies in the prolls (Score:5, Informative)
Burlington Coat Factory will install Linux on 1,150 computers in its 250 stores over the next 12 to 18 months.
"Burlington will run Red Hat Software Inc.'s version of Linux on 1,250 Dell OptiPlex® PCs for office management, to administer its Baby Registry and to handle back-office functions such as shipping and receiving. Dell will factory-install Red Hat Linux software through its DellPlus service on the OptiPlex GX1 computers, giving Burlington the ease and efficiency of PCs that arrive ready to use."
Sited from: Linux in Business [bynari.com]
Re:try cisco (Score:2, Informative)
Mexico? (Score:5, Informative)
We keep hearing these stories of massive deployments of Gnome desktops by the Mexican government.
Home Depot (Score:5, Informative)
Reality (Score:5, Informative)
Today our non-techies run Windows and our coders mostly run Linux, just as before. And it works (relatively) well. There are crashes and annoyances on the Windows side but at least it's usable. Linux simply isn't up to the task yet - and with funding for open source projects going down the toilet as LNUX, SGI, CALD, and RHAT slowly die off, things aren't going to change anytime soon.
-sting3r
Burlington Coat Factory (Score:3, Informative)
Burlington Coat Factory runs Red Hat Linux on 1,250 Dell OptiPlex systems. If you do a search on Dells website or Google, you will find it.
Re:That gov't article a while back (Score:2, Informative)
It has several links with complete information. The short of it is that most of the city's employees use Linux as their day to day OS.
A lot here (Score:2, Informative)
So things are good here I guess. Its one place where the tech support knows how to setup printer in linux
Corrected link (Score:4, Informative)
If you need to know how to do an href, you can go here [w3.org].
Cheers!
Re:IBM (Score:5, Informative)
Here is a link to some Case Studies [ibm.com] that IBM has done on using Linux that I should have posted above.
Re:Korean Air? (Score:5, Informative)
All user interfaces are done on IBM netTerminals that have a thier own firmware to handle user interactions. Linux on the Zserver is limited right now to around 90 really really powerful linux server images, and no direct client connections. The IBM netTerminal's internal application only makes TCP calls to the server. Clients do not use shell accounts, and no GUI login exist for them on the server. Hope I didn't burt your bubble, but trust me on this one...
City of Turku, Finland considers Linux (Score:5, Informative)
Currently 58 Linux desktops, 114 Windows desktops (Score:4, Informative)
from last year, to give you an idea of our
department's size. We have one IIS server, and
three NT file servers, but all other servers
are running Linux. All (well, almost all)
Linux workstations and servers (including
four clusters) are updated nightly through
a remote update scheme we developed here:
Number of Users 247
Faculty 57
Senior Research Staff 7
Research Associates 15
Graduate Students 59
Majors 81
Staff 28
Number of Computers 220
Operating Systems:
Number of Linux Computers:
Counting clusters as single machines 66
Counting individual boxes 92
Desktop workstations 36
Laptops 4
Research group servers 8
Departmental servers 8
X terminals 10
Number of Windows Computers 114
Number of Macintosh Computers 21
Number of Computers with Other Operating Systems 25
Average Logins per Day:
Galileo (departmental cluster) 112
Mail Server (interactive) 70
Mail Server (pop/imap) 3,270
Computer Lab 70
Messages per Day through Mail Server 3,010
Web Server:
Visits per Day 1,300
Pages per Day 2,430
Hits per Day 15,400
Pages Printed per Day 847
Disk Space Backed Up (GB) 370
Departmentally-owned Computers 150
Research_Group_Computers 220
Re:Colleges (Score:2, Informative)
Add to this about 200 more "private" Linux systems for the professors' and grad students' desktops.
ruptime shows 513 systems on the common filesystem, which includes all the "public" systems and lots of the "private" systems, though some portion of that number will be brand-name Unix and some will be lab machines used more for batch processing than for desktops. Still, that is 513 Linux/Unix boxes of some type, of which an estimated 300 are Linux boxes deployed for desktop use.
Overall, they have 2000-3000 active accounts on the combined Linux/Unix login, though many of those will be for undergraduates who do not use it unless they have to.
Re:try cisco (Score:2, Informative)
Some Linux (Score:5, Informative)
My company [totallygeek.com] has been working on custom Linux applications to replace Windows. I hope there are many chances in the future to suggest Linux.
Fermilab (Score:2, Informative)
www.fnal.gov [fnal.gov]
More than 2000 emploees and most of the scintists use Linux as Desktop OS. We even have our own Linux distribution: Fermi Linux [fnal.gov]
here's an interesting look: (Score:3, Informative)
Tried to poll their site to see how many other users use linux, and I'm sure that there is a way but I don't have the time to find it right now. I sure that you can get reports on who uses linux. If you want, punch in some high profile companies into that search and see who pops up, or go over to the "longest uptime" pages and notice that most are BSD/Linux.
(BTW - "da99@COFFEEhome.com minus caffeine" should be "da99@NOCOFFEEhome.com add caffeine")
Re:The city of Largo, FL has switched (Score:4, Informative)
Mails,Calendar,Contact..everything.. anybody can suggest one ?
Check out Steltor's [steltor.com] product line. Linux or NT for the server, use your own LDAP or its internal one... even has Outlook services and sync tools for Palm and (I think) Psion. We're evaluating it right now. So far, so good. My only complaint is that they do not have any way to transfer over all your Exchange Server contacts.
Connected Software has an app called Address Magic which converts anything to anything else -- it seems VERY nice, I've been using it for about a year and a half now. Their new version is a hundredfold faster but they still have trouble with the LDIF format. I am working with them to get that fixed so I can get rid of Exchange Server here.
Walmart (Score:2, Informative)
Meanwhile at Fred Myers last night, I was at the 'do-it-yourself' checkout and witnessed a station reboot...sadly enough what I saw was the Windows NT 4.0 start-up screen...Thus I understood why the system was rebooting...
Re:Reality (Score:3, Informative)
dumbass. here's a little lecture in net.talk. perhaps you should read GLS' jargon file, but I digress.
troll: a posting or a poster designed to aggravate and irritate. trolls are universally annoying. [lame] example: "Your mother is a reptile."
flamebait: a posting that will tend to attract flames. this is not something that is inherently offensive, but merely dangerous in the current medium.
what is flamebait varies.
flamebait is also not a conscious attack. it tends to be more on the order of being insensitive to local norms.
the above posting was flamebait because it suggested that Linux was doomed. and this is /. - the exact same posting to a windows-programming newsgroup, for example, would not have been flamebait. but here it is.
Math Dept at Texas A&M (Score:3, Informative)
The nice thing about it is, any science oriented student *must* take three math classes that are based around these labs. So you've basically got a captive audience for at least 1.5 years while they're still impressionable freshmen.
Jeb is working against this. (Score:3, Informative)
http://w2k.myflorida.com/vision.asp
amazon uses linux (Score:3, Informative)
Re:HP uses linux... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Colleges (Score:1, Informative)
Univeristy need to have a few machines that are a generic solution for the student body in general. Companies generally have a single machine that has the tools it needs to get the job done.
Note, before you go and say that Linux has program xyz to do whatever you want, that isn't what this post is about. It's about finding an accurate model to use in your comparisons.
MIT runs alot of redhat (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why so different (Score:2, Informative)
A lot of people complain that KDE is too much like Windows for their tastes. A lot of the time, you can just do whatever you would have done in Windows, and it just works.
Google Search Found Some Answers (Score:2, Informative)
So I tried a Google search on 'Linux installations corporate' and found a good list. Also, if you do a search here in 'older stuff' I'm sure you can find many posts, since anytime even when a medium size company switches over, someone reports it.
But this was a good reference which contained a list of case studies of businesses that switched to linux.
http://www.bynari.com/collateral/case_studies.html
Linas.org also provided an incredible study of Linux Enterprise Computing.
http://linas.org/linux/
Mostly Debian GNU/Linux (Score:2, Informative)
I especially enjoy busting off one-liners that upgrade/patch all the Debian boxen.