After two years of pilot testing, the South Korean government is rolling
out a home-grown open source platform called Buyeo, the Korean version
of Linux, to 10,000 schools in the country:
http://taiwan.cnet.com/news/software/0,2000064574,20099866,00.htm , or
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39205037,00.htm
If anyone can dig out any info on the Buyeo Linux distro, s/he will no
doubt be our hero.
Two years ago, the Beijing municipal government decided to "switch" to
Linux (I believe it was China's own "Red Flag" Linux). It turned to be
a total disaster. Within less than one month, everyone single machine
that was forced to install Linux switched to Microsoft Windows. The
so-called Operation Linux was totally annihilated.
The Tainan County of Taiwan is planning to install 9,000 Linux seats in
various schools sometime this year. Their system will be based on the
Knoppix LiveCD customized for their own environment (again, another
home-made distro). For those who can read Chinese (or know someone who
reads Chinese), take a quick glance of their website:
http://freesf.tnc.edu.tw/
Wayne
