Comments on: Xavier School Deploys 600 Ubuntu Linux Desktops

By: lavezarez

lavezarez — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:00:15 +0000

Keep up the good work, guys! Your site reinforces my faith in Ubuntu in particular, and open source in general. I hope to put the company I work for in your survey soon!

Why not make a survey of how many companies are also switching to go-oo (go-oo.org) or openoffice?

By: m

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:37:52 +0000

Its good news to hear to all Ubuntu geeks and fanatics.
Ubuntu is growing and growing and growing. Long Live
Ubuntu…

We should practice using open source applications now
a days cuz cuz its all free.

By: Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:28:13 +0000

Jack @4: As a global web site we can’t just focus on the Philippine deployments. But we will certainly write about them. And you’ll be seeing dozens of additional Ubuntu customer stories in the months ahead.

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:32:14 +0000

This is good news, wish their was this kind of sensible thinking here in the UK. My friend who is a teacher just this week pulled two pc’s out of a skip from his school and passed them to me as he knows I can always do with more hardware. These PC’s were 1.8ghz P4′s. The reason for them being thrown out….Too slow!

I have Ubuntu on them now and they run great, nothing wrong with them at all. Also to note that the school was for children aged between 4 and 11 so I fail to see how they needed even faster machines, unless they had just become gunked up with all the crud that attached itself to Windows.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:01:27 +0000

Instead of wasting your time on global Ubuntu deployments, focus on the local Philippine deployments and scenario. This is where FOSS will really shine specially since there’s no cost issue involve (unless you’re a politican then that’s a whole different story).

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:50:52 +0000

Good to hear. I haven’t switched my school to GNU/Linux yet because we use some applications (PageMaker and QuickBooks) that don’t work with Wine and there are no viable alternatives.

Will the school be using wine to run anything (maybe Microsoft Office)?

Anyways, good news. Thanks.

Alan

By: A.J Venter

A.J Venter — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:21:22 +0000

Xavier ? Isn’t that where the X-Men go to school ? Makes sense though, X-men, X.org … seems a natural fit for GNU/Linux don’t it

By: Zac

Zac — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:59:13 +0000

Nice to hear this piece of news. Good choice.