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  1. Following other OSS moves in Indonesia by linumax · · Score: 3, Informative · on Indonesia Adopts Java Desktop System on Linux

    More on Indoneia's open source efforts could be found here
    http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Indonesia.html
    They are one of the most active in ASIA but they usually do it on their own while others like Japan, Korea and China are workng together on nice things like Asianux

  2. OSS contacts on regional and municipal levels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend

    A remarkable new aspect is that increasingly OSS contacts are being established and kept on regional and municipal levels, see

    The state of Terengganu, Malaysia to copy Extremadura model
    http://www.asiaosc.org/article_289.html

    After his meeting with the visitor from Malaysia, the Prime Minister of Extremadura, Spain, Mr Rodriguez Ibarra, said:
    ...reason why tended the hand for "serving as model, but also to be shared in common partners and cooperators, because what goes in benefit of one it goes in benefit of all".

    Tthe autonomous region of Extremadura has shifted its entire educational system to its own Debian-based distribution, LinEx. In most of its OSS/FLOSS efforts, Extremadura has been already in close collaboration with the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, for years.

    So these politicians are no longer waiting for the national governments to start networking in favour of OSS, they do it by themselves and they do it now. Thus, they finally have adopted some of the fundamental ideas in OSS and have made them part of their work style as well as part of the content of their work. Very promising.

    More on OSS in Asia:

    http://www.asiaosc.org/index.php

    and, by Frederick Noronha who is based in Goa, India:

    http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/asia.html

    Linux in Africa:

    http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/africa.html

    Regards,
    Walter.

  3. OSS contacts on regional and municipal levels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend

    A remarkable new aspect is that increasingly OSS contacts are being established and kept on regional and municipal levels, see

    The state of Terengganu, Malaysia to copy Extremadura model
    http://www.asiaosc.org/article_289.html

    After his meeting with the visitor from Malaysia, the Prime Minister of Extremadura, Spain, Mr Rodriguez Ibarra, said:
    ...reason why tended the hand for "serving as model, but also to be shared in common partners and cooperators, because what goes in benefit of one it goes in benefit of all".

    Tthe autonomous region of Extremadura has shifted its entire educational system to its own Debian-based distribution, LinEx. In most of its OSS/FLOSS efforts, Extremadura has been already in close collaboration with the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, for years.

    So these politicians are no longer waiting for the national governments to start networking in favour of OSS, they do it by themselves and they do it now. Thus, they finally have adopted some of the fundamental ideas in OSS and have made them part of their work style as well as part of the content of their work. Very promising.

    More on OSS in Asia:

    http://www.asiaosc.org/index.php

    and, by Frederick Noronha who is based in Goa, India:

    http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/asia.html

    Linux in Africa:

    http://www.maailma.kaapeli.fi/africa.html

    Regards,
    Walter.

  4. Re:funding? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Malaysian Government Prefers Open Code

    The interest in open source is improving and some money is flowing in. See Malaysian Venture Capital (Mavcap) http://www.silicon.com/software/os/0,39024651,3911 6677,00.htm
    puting in RM 18-36 million.If you take a look at on Malaysian open source center (http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Malaysia.html)
    you can see the ecosystem growing.

  5. Open Source in Malaysia by ShaolinTiger · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Malaysian Government Prefers Open Code
    Let me quality my position first, I am a Brit working in Malaysia for an MSC status company (Multimedia Super Corridor). I shall be shortly moving to my new office in the intelligent city..(CyberJaya).

    Our company is heavily adopting open source software as I believe many others are, we are using SAMBA 3.x as our PDC/File Server, FreeBSD as our Firewall/NAT/Router/Traffic Shaper, Another *nix machine in the DMZ as Tomcat/mail server, OpenOffice.org as the productivity suite for the Windows machine, Thunderbird as the mail client and so on.

    As mentioned above piracy is predominant here, the main reason being cost, as a poster above explained the cost for many things here is higher than Europe or America (if you use economies of scale not a direct currency conversion). Cars are expensive, housing is reasonable, food is cheap, technology stuff is average, software is EXPENSIVE. Most SME's here don't have domains, they are still using workgroups as the cost of Win2k server is prohibitive (The salary per annum for an average employee). Pirated software is easy to get (within every decent sized housing area there is 2-3 places you can go) and cheap ($1-2USD per CD). People do buy orginal software, but usally only larger companies and people who want to play online games (for example Warcraft III you need an original, unique CD key to play on Battle.net).

    People are finally realising using pirated software is bad, and that licenced software is too expensive to be economically viable and as open source awareness spreads these are becoming more realistic alternatives. As far as I know many small companies are adopting Linux and OSS software packages or at least conducting some kind of testing/integration. There are quite a few Open Source advocates and groups/mailing lists here: From what I know the state of OSS looks good here, there are regular conferences, meetings and things going on towards the advancement of open source usage in the Malaysia I.T. community. (P.S. frist psot as a non-AC)

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  6. Switch to Debian via Knoppix by vlauria · · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life

    I decided to make a switch to Debian after a friend kept talking about apt-get. After trying for hours to get Debian to work with all my hardware, my friend recommended the CD bootable OS, Knoppix. Knoppix is KDE on top of Debian and is easy to install. APT-GET makes my life a breeze when installing new packages. Everyonce should be running Debian. You don't get much more authentic then a real GNU/Linux distro.

    Here is an AMAZING guide to a Knoppix HD install:
    http://www.asiaosc.org/article_82.html

  7. More open source news for various Asian countries by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative · on Novell Headed To Linux Enterprise Desktop In Asia

    ...can be found at AsiaOSC.

    They've got good info on each country - i.e., here's the page on Malaysia. They also serve as a mirror for Open Office, various BSDs, multiple RedHat releases, and so forth, so they're doing more than just gathering news. No banner ads, either.

  8. More open source news for various Asian countries by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative · on Novell Headed To Linux Enterprise Desktop In Asia

    ...can be found at AsiaOSC.

    They've got good info on each country - i.e., here's the page on Malaysia. They also serve as a mirror for Open Office, various BSDs, multiple RedHat releases, and so forth, so they're doing more than just gathering news. No banner ads, either.

  9. More open source in Asia news... by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative · on Linux for Asia: Asianux

    ...can be found on AsiaOSC.

    There's a note on the front page there about a recent Mongolian Linux release, too.

  10. More information on Vietnam open source efforts... by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative · on Vietnam Going Open Source

    ...can be found on the AsiaOSC Vietnam page.

    There's a interesting presentation linked to from there also.

  11. Re:New developers! by tcopeland · · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux Gaining Ground In India

    The Asia Open Source Center has news, polls, and such-like for that very topic.

  12. Re:List of Switchers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates

    There are a couple of sites focused on governments and open source. One is the IOSN run by the UNDP. It's currently Asia-Pacific only but I'm sure if you submit links, they will put up the information. They welcome all submissions and are currently in the early stages of setting up the site and the infrastructure behind it. Expect them to be more active in the near future.

    Alternatively, if it is only Asia-Pacific focused, links can also be submitted to AsiaOSC. It's a Wiki page so anyone can post information (after registration of course).