| Predicting the weather with Linux at the National Weather Service [NewsForge] |
Jan. 28, 2003
Linux is the desktop choice for the National Weather Service according to this report from Norbert Cartagena at NewsForge . . .
" . . . they've been able to "drop and run" with Linux. The software they use is mostly software included on the Red Hat 7.2 CDs. For the desktop, they've been using OpenOffice.org's suite in lieu of Microsoft Office, and if they must boot up Windows, they do it with VMWare . In addition, one of Kirkwood's favorite advantages is the availability of numerous Linux user groups, both at home and abroad. Support from the community "is excellent," he says. "To me, that's a plus. A huge plus." . . . "
"Although in the back end things are going all Linux, the desktop is another matter. There haven't been any major problems, but not everybody is up for the change, even with tools like OpenOffice. "What we found," explains Kirkwood, "is that as Linux and Open Source have progressed, [we're] getting to the point where the Linux desktop can do almost anything that the Windows desktop can do... There's talk of going to the Linux desktop . . . "
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