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Bridging India's Digital Divide With Linux

Posted by michael on from the routing-around-microsoft dept.

Kinnu provides a pointer to this story about India's increasing use of Linux. They mention a battlefield PDA running Linux, making Linux the standard OS for students, and some more about the Simputer.

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  1. Recall that... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Informative
    The President of India Dr. Abdul Kalam is a nuclear physicist, and a renowned scholar who advocated open source in a speech given at the Indian Navy's Weapons and Electronic System Engineering Establishment last year.

    Richard Stallman also visited the President and interestingly, the President had prepared for the meeting by downloading and reading Stallman's biography from the Internet."

    For the curious, the President of India's website runs Apache/PHP on Linux.

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  2. More Info by tanveer1979 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since you want more info, here it is. And it is not your gps+mobile. I have played around with the device and it is actually a very very capable handheld. A friend of mine did the body design, the the specs were simple. We intend it to be used in vilages, so it should be immune to drops from about 4 feet and also immune from dust and little rainfall exposure :)

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