> Great work :) Maybe its my repeated question hope you dont mind . What > did the lab installation include ? How was the experience ? >
Fedora-18 has about 30K packages overall. Our kickstart based remote installation installs about 7.5K packages (almost all package groups in F18, excluding languages). After the lab setup, the college system admin told me that he would immediately discuss with HOD, Principal and Management to change most labs to Linux/FOSS. This experience I had in almost all the colleges I visited / setup labs. Repeating again that, the colleges have completely lost interest in Proprietary OS / Applications and all institutions wants to switch to Linux. By 2015, about 70% of engineering colleges in TN would be using Linux in their IT infrastructure. Changes in curriculum and avoiding proprietary applications in lab requirements could make this process a lot easier and earlier. -- S. Baskar Twitter : http://twitter.com/linuxbaskar LinkedIN : http://www.linkedin.com/pub/baskar-selvaraj/21/881/b29 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
