Would be nice to see this expand into a single installer / package manager and (importantly!) a Dependency manager.
Maybe a hybrid of Anaconda + dselect would be nice, if rolled into 1. Add 'kickstart' kind of capablity to that and it would be a kickass app to have around.
Specially since most people dont tend to install Linux from installable mode very often( i havent in the last 3 years)
One of the major motivating factors for people in the developing countries is price. But there is also the legal issue. With Linux everything is above board. With Windoze, not so sure.
A lot of cybercafe's that i have been to run Linux at the server end / gateway end. (if ur going to hang around the ones with 3 computers on a single dialup line... then it will be a diff story. )
On the terminal side, if you look around delhi and chandigarh, you will find that a fair number of the larger ( 15 computer + types ) are running some form of a Kiosk'ed implementations of Linux.
As a side note: one of the issues really contributing to people looking at non Windoze platforms has been the recent viri epidemics....
Most of it was perl scripts thrown together on a redhat machine and then replicated across to 24 other 'nodes'. The code was all too site specific to really put online for anyone else.
The Cybercafe itself was called the Login CyberCafe, at Chandigarh. The guys who ran the place shut it down a few years back and moved onto green'er pastures - they now run a call center for American companies!
If someone is sure there is a problem, find the means to solve the problem ( in that try and enfore the age rating more seriously etc ) rather than kill the entire issue off. all thats going to do is create the 'underground + illegal = more fun' aspect of things.
About 6 years back I developed and setup a Cyber Cafe management system that ran 100% off Linux and Open Source tools.
For developing countries like India one of the major advantages of Open Source is the Cost factor and the general commuinity based support avilable for most Open Source platforms. Added to that the fact that things work the way they are supposed to, and you have systems running for well over 60 - 80 days without the need for a reboot / support of any nature. The end result is a winning combination all the way.
The other major advantage of investing in Open Source is that the younger generation ( who are'nt into the commercial aspects of computing as yet ) grow up and learn within a framework that encourages choice and alternatives rather than constricting you into a predesignated thought process.
In things as they stand today, we need this kind of liberty of thought and process.
For an OS like Linux, thats always changing and evolving, how relevant is a Cert of this nature ? In an OS like Windoze where there are very little ( or far and few ) feature updates, between fairly long drawn out release cycles one can understand that each version being certified can mean something.
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Would be nice to see this expand into a single installer / package manager and (importantly!) a Dependency manager.
Maybe a hybrid of Anaconda + dselect would be nice, if rolled into 1. Add 'kickstart' kind of capablity to that and it would be a kickass app to have around.
Specially since most people dont tend to install Linux from installable mode very often( i havent in the last 3 years)
One of the major motivating factors for people in the developing countries is price. But there is also the legal issue. With Linux everything is above board. With Windoze, not so sure.
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A lot of cybercafe's that i have been to run Linux at the server end / gateway end. (if ur going to hang around the ones with 3 computers on a single dialup line... then it will be a diff story. )
On the terminal side, if you look around delhi and chandigarh, you will find that a fair number of the larger ( 15 computer + types ) are running some form of a Kiosk'ed implementations of Linux.
As a side note: one of the issues really contributing to people looking at non Windoze platforms has been the recent viri epidemics
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Most of it was perl scripts thrown together on a redhat machine and then replicated across to 24 other 'nodes'. The code was all too site specific to really put online for anyone else.
The Cybercafe itself was called the Login CyberCafe, at Chandigarh. The guys who ran the place shut it down a few years back and moved onto green'er pastures - they now run a call center for American companies!
If someone is sure there is a problem, find the means to solve the problem ( in that try and enfore the age rating more seriously etc ) rather than kill the entire issue off. all thats going to do is create the 'underground + illegal = more fun' aspect of things.
About 6 years back I developed and setup a Cyber Cafe management system that ran 100% off Linux and Open Source tools.
For developing countries like India one of the major advantages of Open Source is the Cost factor and the general commuinity based support avilable for most Open Source platforms. Added to that the fact that things work the way they are supposed to, and you have systems running for well over 60 - 80 days without the need for a reboot / support of any nature. The end result is a winning combination all the way.
The other major advantage of investing in Open Source is that the younger generation ( who are'nt into the commercial aspects of computing as yet ) grow up and learn within a framework that encourages choice and alternatives rather than constricting you into a predesignated thought process.
In things as they stand today, we need this kind of liberty of thought and process.
For an OS like Linux, thats always changing and evolving, how relevant is a Cert of this nature ? In an OS like Windoze where there are very little ( or far and few ) feature updates, between fairly long drawn out release cycles one can understand that each version being certified can mean something.