[KLUG Members] Linux in local government???

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Not exactly the info you are probably interested in but here is what I've got.
I am the only full time employee of my Rural township in Southwestern lower 
michigan. I am a Fire chief forthe Twp, we provide fire and EMS?  protection 
for 2 very rural Twp.'s here.
The Twp office certianly is not interested, but here at the FD I have 4 
machines all running Linux. 
1 FW-Gateway for the ISP(dialup) connection. COL 2.4
1 File server (FreeBSD 4.6)
2 Desktops Gentoo 1.2, KDE3.0.4, kernel 2.4.19, Win4Lin4 (win98SE in W4L)
1 Laptop Gentoo 1.2, (as above)
All running on a 10-bT ethernet. The ,machines are all pentium and PIII 
machines 400-500mhz.
I use the system for E-mail, web page maint. Word Processing, (Koffice), 
spreadsheets, presentations etc... (Kword), Same stuff you all use yours for.
I'm having problems with kpilot, and korganizer, kaddressbook. and am 
currently resorting to Win for the palm sync stuff. As well as several Fire 
Department reporting, inspection, Preplan, and recordkeeping apps written 
specifically for the windows platform, unfortutunately it is difficult to 
convince app developers in this market that they should cross develop for the 
Linux platform. In this area Win4Lin works very well. I have access to the 
serial port for sending reports to the state, and it is more robust and 
stable than win natively, with very near performance, sometimes better. 

I dunno if this is any info you are interested in or not.


Mike




On Friday 08 November 2002 12:08 pm, Taz wrote:
> LOL!!!
>
> Bruce
>
> Doc Rea wrote:
> > Because those little old ladies who run the polls will bust your
> > kneecaps if you don't follow the rules ;}
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 00:41, Taz wrote:
> > > Bruce,
> > >
> > > Why don't you go back ans ask?
> > >
> > > Bruce
>
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	Michael W. Holdeman
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