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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. Re:India should use OS X, not Linux by Orgazmus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Impossible learning curve of Linux?
    I made an 80 year old man run linux on his first ever computer. He was writing, managing and printing documents after a couple of hours. I think it might be you doing the sucking, not linux.

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    The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images