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By the way, I've already mentioned that Ubuntu does not mean "people friendly." I know people are going to make a big deal of it anyway.
There is also an interview with a local news station: http://dothanfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=7340
And, yes, diggers. The quality of everything might not be up to par with what you're "used to," but remember this is local news.

Reading Digg is better than answering stupid kids questions.

I'm a librarian and I read digg, whats the big deal?

If i was a librarian, and i had nothing to do all day, i would read digg for sure =)

i hope http://www.duggmirror.com got it, as it's down at 53 diggs...

Dugg for the "Christian Ubuntu" web filter. They couldn't come up with a better name?

But in all seriousness, this is pretty darn cool. Three cheers for open source.

Working mirror: http://genevapubliclibrary.org.nyud.net:8080/content/view/37/50/

Yep, I'm another librarian that reads digg,

Librarian judges townsfolk based on their book-returning habits.

What is this, The Onion?

so what

librarian = geek ---- geeks use digg

Why is this a big deal?

Awesometimes!

Its a great success story for open source, I hope other non-profit organisations follow suite. Be sure to install open office :)

I think the strange thing is that she used Windows 98 AND reads Digg. Seems like an odd combo to me.

something needs to be done about overwhelming servers. digg shut down a public library website. how many people do you think try to check availability or other things every day?

is she hot?

Like they didn't have enough problems convertign to Linux from win98...now we've killed their server, porbably the same machine that keeps up with the dewy decimals and all that library stuff.

this is much more fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWIrxuF5NSo
and this better written:
http://libctsvr.libct.org/archives/conntech/2007/0903.html
in other news, a hamster ate my sandwich.

Why does it sound like dantidote and voldak are apologizing for being librarians? Jesus, library sciences is a monstrous line of study not for the faint of heart, and I have unending respect for anyone who can complete a bachelors, masters or, gods forbid, phd in the field. The old fashioned stereotype of an old lady with thick glasses putting books on shelves died some time in the 1950s. Library sciences is typically on the cutting edge of the world of information, how we manage it and consume it.

librarians can be sexy

OMG!!! Someone switched to Linux!!

This has got to be the lamest, most non-newsworthy story I think I've seen on Digg in a while.

I work in a library - we moved all our public PC's to Ubuntu over a year ago. Similarly, we're planning to move all staff to Ubuntu soon.
www.hclibrary.org/oss2oss.php

[Insert job title here] switched to Linux. Let's all orgasm over it.

And then their web server crashed.

Those stuffy old librarians will routinely shock you with how savvy they are when it comes to technology.

Aw, that was a nice story! Go Linux, go Ubuntu!

I guess this makes the whole world by now!

At least I would think it is with the number of these stories that make the Digg front page.

“The speed of these machines is just unbelievable. I have one Windows machine left and--that’s in my office. And I don’t want to use it because it’s so slow compared to the other ones. So when there’s nobody in the library, I go and use one of the patron machines to get work done"
- i'm not surprised - imagine all that spyware on those Windows 98 machines.

Digg librarian checking in...

too bad they didn't switch their web server to linux

I bet they'll vote for Ron Paul too.

Yet another librarian who Diggs saying hey.

"There are about five or six different Ubuntu versions just depending on whether you’re a church or a school or a library or just want the operating system"

Something is wrong with this sentence.

But it's not worth mentioning.

buried as inaccurate.
"Than add insult to injury when Microsoft decided to abandon Windows 98 operating system."
this person claims to be a librarian and uses "than" instead of "then"?

I imagine part of the reason more libraries haven't switched to some flavor of Linux has a lot to do with the fact that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is responsible for funding a LOT of the technology that goes into the public library system.

(Don't get me wrong, on the whole it's been a good thing as it means more people have who would not otherwise have had access to them get to use computers for free.)

Since it has been over 3 hours since the last post here and it looks like this is sliding off of the front page...

My confession: I am the librarian that took a teeny tiny little rural library from windows 98 to Ubuntu 6.06 with success. I am very overwhelmed by the response here. Because we are a very small rural library, our Technology department has a grand total of ... one person. Me.

So if the level of sophistication is missing here that you are used to, well, pardon me. It doesn't really matter anyway, because the patrons that use our library now more than ever are very happy with what has been done.

Patron computer usage in October 2005 ---------- 99
Patron computer usage in July 2007 ---------------- 451
Patron computer usage in August 2007 ------------ 428

That is a lot of people for a small rural town of 4000! Thanks for all the positive comments here and thanks for the unusual number of Diggs.

why should I care if anybody switches operating systems??
My experiance as an engineer shows me that you get what you pay for.....

Ubuntu 7 Desktop has proven to me that Linux is absolutely ready for "regular" users. It's just so freakin' easy.

"A majority of the computers in the library were Pentium I and II systems that wouldn't be able to run Windows XP or Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system."

linux is great and all, but come the hell on now. i might be able to run, say, fluxbox pretty decently on a pentium 1, but not gdm/gnome. i'd consider this a win for the library, and lose for the poor saps that depend on their archive of ancient computers.