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Yeah, that must have been a huge problem. These days however an OKayish notebook can be had for $400 or an i3 NUC with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD with an IPS 1080p m
by bitL 6y ago
Yeah, that must have been a huge problem. These days however an OKayish notebook can be had for $400 or an i3 NUC with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD with an IPS 1080p monitor for $500, and those would run any Linux well for foreseeable future without killing city's budget.
- mschuster91 6y agoUnfortunately that isn't easy with the way government procuring works. Basically, you make a specsheet what you want (e.g. spare components must be available for a duration of X years) and then have to publish tenders, and usually the vendors offering bids have to fulfill certain conditions (e.g. must have a reliable history working with governments). The last part alone excludes many cheap vendors as they don't have government contracting experience, and the spare parts requirements kills the rest as they can only be so cheap because they don't have to build much of a spare parts infrastructure. (Note: this is not specifically relating to LiMux in any way, I have no knowledge about the contracts/tender process that happened back then) Also, the scale matters: 15.500 PCs are even at 500$ apiece 7.75 million €.