[Klug-general] How does Kent County Council select software?

[Jonathan Kaye]

Dan Attwood wrote on 19/09/14 10:09:
>
>
> >" All the time I was in Gorizia (nearly 5 years) there were no
> complaints (only some questions) involving the linux machine. I rest
> my case."
>
> You provided one to one support for a small number of users. How well
> does that scale?
>
Apparently well enough. (a) These are public machines and Gorizia is a
kind of international crossroads lying on the Slovenian border and not
very far from Croatia or Austria. There are many people travelling
through the town and very few public places where the internet is
available. Gorizia is approximately the size of Margate and is the
provincial capital of Gorizia province and so serves as an urban hub for
the area.

As I mentioned, we started with one and now there are 5. Ok, we are not
dealing with billions here but then what do we mean by "a small number
of users"?
>
> "The last time I used Windows was around 2006"
>
> A bad experience with one machine 8 years ago. If I applied the same
> logic to the start of my Linux journey there is no way i'd still be
> using it (getting mandrake to connect to a dial up modem in 2004 was
> enough to almost reduce me to tears - it worked perfectly in windows xp)  
>
I expressed myself badly. There are problems with any system of
reasonable complexity. Why just today my Calibre stopped working with
this error message:
/~$ calibre//
//python2.7: /tmp/buildd/sip4-4.16.3+dfsg/siplib/siplib.c:8514:
sip_api_can_convert_to_type: Assertion `(((td)->td_flags & 0x0007) ==
0x0000) || (((td)->td_flags & 0x0007) == 0x0002)' failed.//
//Aborted//
/The difference is that this is not done by design, nor was your
example. Indeed your modem problem is traceable to the proprietary model
for which Microsoft is largely responsible. My example of a "bad
experience" was Windows behaving exactly as Windows was programmed to
behave.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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