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Thanks for the compliments! Computers in Brazil are not so cheap. They are a society of owners and they asked me about the possibility to use Linux, so, they didn't need to invest a lot of money to renew 5 computers, buy 5 Office Licenses, 5 Anti-virus licenses, etc 5 licenses to be away of piracy. It would take about 6 months of the hole office profit to make it, it's not an easy thing. Users in the office are not so good people too and tend to destroy new devices they invest on. Keyboards, mices and cables are changed all the time because of the light hands they have. Another thing about old computers is related to recycling. It's good to see that working hardware don't need to polute the world, since they're useful! Yes, the LTSP server should be replaced in the near future, but it does its job for now, maybe with the new PHP system we should implement it will be replaced by a new multicore modern one. Oh yes, I forgot to say in the article. We HAVE a cron job for automatic backup of all data, every day, in a spare hard disk. Recovery procedure? It's a matter of buying a new HD, install Ubuntu and cp -a comand from the spare HD for user data and /etc directory, everything up in an hour or two, the mission is not critical. It's really incredible what a PIII can do with Linux, new hardware is really not necessary and everything works in a modern OS, and its OS is Linux that we all love a lot. Thing about this mission with new hardware and Windows? Costs, difficulties to administrate, virus, spyware, crapware, etc... I forgot to say in the article that they donated part of the money saved with this system to an Open Source initiative ;) In Brazil we can't save taxes for donating money to projects but they thinked it was worth the investment.

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