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by GreyShadow
Sat 20 Mar 2010, 23:30
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Would Puppy be a good choice for a public library?
Replies: 28
Views: 14036

living in the country

If I was rich I would give jobs to smart ,nix geeks! :lol: Also just because I live in New York does not mean there are tall buildings around us. Where we live we have many cows, it is sort of a light industrial but mostly milk and hay area. I'm from the Portland Oregon area and it is a lot more bui...
by GreyShadow
Sat 20 Mar 2010, 00:08
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Would Puppy be a good choice for a public library?
Replies: 28
Views: 14036

sure wish you were here

It would be great if someone would like to come to our public library and set up some Linux-Puppy computers.
Any volunteers?
:)
by GreyShadow
Mon 15 Mar 2010, 22:44
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Would Puppy be a good choice for a public library?
Replies: 28
Views: 14036

Public Library Puppy

Userful is spendy..around 1500 for the 1st year for 5 computers and around 500-800 per year there after(as i remember 3 years ago). But everything from software updates to fixing problems are all done for you remotely. As I said before library staff is not going to fart around booting and rebooting ...
by GreyShadow
Sun 14 Mar 2010, 23:44
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Would Puppy be a good choice for a public library?
Replies: 28
Views: 14036

Public Library Puppy

This is the nub of the problem...library staff have other duties to attend to rather than baby sitting the public computer stations. That is why Userful is a good Linux solution, it also has a print control function too. Not to put down all the cool things that one can do with Puppy and Linux in gen...
by GreyShadow
Thu 04 Mar 2010, 20:10
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Would Puppy be a good choice for a public library?
Replies: 28
Views: 14036

Library Puppy

How much time are you willing to give your library patrons to teach how to use Puppy?
I work at a public library so I have some experience with a few issues you will face going in the Win vs Linux for public access computing. You may want to look at Userful...(Canada)