Hey my open source droogies, A coworker of mine (Lonnie Price) is working on several African projects (one of them being dairy-related) and asked me what I thought about Linspire. I asked him what sort of environment he was thinking of implementing it, and he said that he was considering working with someone on distributing Linux-based workstations to Africa.
He's looking for something turnkey, so I suggested that he might also look to SuSE and/or Xandros. Haven't used Xandros (it's Debian-based, I think), but I know that SuSE is incredibly easy to install initially. You can be up and ready to go in like 30 minutes having only clicked a few buttons. Maybe not quite as easy-to-use as Linspire, it would probably give them much better long term functionality and flexibility. Something like (or even like Ubuntu) might even give local IT people ways to "add value" to the distribution before they sell it to the end user. Any one else have any thoughts or comments about what I suggested? Rog
