On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < [email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Baskar Selvaraj <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > We use our own FOSS lab server for setting up the lab. Fedora-14 is > being > > I would very very strongly suggest you use Centos as it has a very > long support cycle (7 years) > i am for Fedora for activities like these , its always a step ahead of RHEL and yes students have an opportunity to contribute actively to the fedora community rather than closed RHEL platform wrt to community participation , experimentation etc.... over and above all of it learnings . > I do understand kids need latest things to work on them. But theb the > cost of maintenance and support in remote areas can be a bit of an > issue. > issues like ? > I am toying around with the idea of different support consortiums for > such FOSS efforts: BFSI, Manufacturing, Academics (including PHBs) > etc. > elaborate > I understand it is a bit mindboggling to even think of this > considering the minefield of Licences, patents, fianacial and host of > other issues. > how ? > > But my focus is a resilient Support system for India specific environment. > explain resilience wrt to support specific to .in , is it something like pizza delivery support guy on the door in 30 minutes ? > Let me just throw an idea: imagine a 42 u rack with dual UPS, food > virtualised commodity storage and servers that can be placed anywhere. > Application can be anything. > > Or perhaps I am hallucinating.... > > above IMHO, > > Any thouhgts on this issues? > Price points and support offerings ? and why should somebody come to me/us than roll her/his or go to Centos community ? -Satya _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
