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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.

2 of 241 comments (clear)

  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
  2. 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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    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam