On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:26:26AM +0545, Shankar Pokharel wrote: > Today, we(Ankur and I) did a presentation to the "Telecenter Refresher > Training" at TITI, organized by HLCIT. There were 46 telecenter operators(?) > from across the Nepal, Jumla to Jhapa. > > We had about 2hrs time, so we discussed so many things with them. They were > very much interested in Wikipedia, Nepalinux, LTSP and OLPC indeed. > > We also demoed Ubuntu and Nepalinux(with installation). They were very much > excited with all the stuffs.
Nice! :) > > And the key thing is "They want to work with it". They have asked us for an > easy to use(migrate) Linux Distribution. Very nice! :) > > And the question is: Which distribution is best for them? Ubuntu(customized) > or Nepalinux or Fedora(customized?) or any other? > > > or the question is invalid? I'd say the question isn't invalid. Rather they need to allocate their time & budget (for 2/3 person team or more if that can be afforded). The team needs to manage their IT infrastructure. The question itself "which distribution is good enough" can be answered by they themselves. We can only advise and ponder. If in a state that they can't decide which distribution is good enough for them, give them all the distributions (Ubuntu, Nepalinux and Fedora) to play around and see it for themselves so they know exactly what they want. If they fail to decide even then, than I'd say they should chose Nepalinux because Nepalinux developer team is closer to home and in the case of trouble arising in the distribution, they can contact Nepalinux team and get help ASAP. But I am by no means a capable person to speak on behalf of Nepalinux devel team. Just a thought. Also, note that Nepalinux could possibly base it off Ubuntu/Debian(Fully i.e., -possibly- ) in future so, that means the whole expertise of Debian/Ubuntu universe from mailing list/forums/irc that they can use. So, that means they have better information about their system and how to manage their system. But the government "do" need a *team* to manage their system. I mean if a linux geek sees a job ad "hclit calling for all linux geek in the country" or something, which linux geek would have the guts to not apply for the job? Tell me. :) It's getting longer now. I shutup. Goodnight! Just a .02 Cheers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
