On Monday 18 April 2005 10:35, Ronny wrote: > You may be right seen many SuSE Boxes as I/we replaced Redhat with > some just for fun :-) .
How can that be fun? > But some hint; providers like UTL and Spacenet > leave the Shadowman behind rocking while other big names like > Infocom,Africa Online ,One2net,MTN and /linuxgiants/ (linuxsolutions) > prefer the distro in the green box. Dumped Fedora 3 on some major > production box in some busy cafe(one of the biggest). ;-) .But seems > SuSE still rocks in Uganda. You could attribute that to a 'certain' list moderator, amongst other folk :). Mark. > But if the Mandrake guys keep pushing they might steal the Desktop show > > :-D . > > Well I recomend no distribution for any one but do recommed Knoppix > Live CD for all sysadmins it should be in your Toolbox.Become my friend > and I will give you a free copy at a cheap price ;-) . > / "But what I think there are different distros for different > purposes to help the people who might do the survey you won't find > Mandrake on my Rack" But you might on my Desktop.(and on Dual Boot) > > "The info in this mail is or may not be right" You free to edit and > correct it (It's open so to say) as long as you indicate. > > > If I may ask do the owners of this list plan to put up a site for this > list.If not "do we?" :-) / > Ronny > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi > > > >In Uganda, I can unofficially say that Suse Linux has the greatest number > >of Installs available from the experience we have with supporting and > >installing Linux Systems as a company. > > > >As regards the study that was done in 2003, it did not get down to the OS > >flavours but for sure I too would be very interested in such a study for > >obvious reasons. > > > >Wire > > > >>>On Friday 15 April 2005 13:25, Jean-Francois Laforest wrote: > >>>>as well as bsd.. > >>> > >>>Sounds like a project that would need time, money. What would the > >> > >>purpose of > >> > >>>this survey be? > >> > >>Speaking from the point of view of EACOSS, this would be very handy in > >>gauging the level of training required as well as the target > >>institutions/organizations. > >>Also very instrumental in assesing the level of awareness efforts > >>required, direction as well as potential partners. > >>There was a survey done by Wire sometime back on behalf of IICD in this > >>direction. Have you got your hands on it? > >> > >>>Initially, if the local computer companies can get you sales stats, > >> > >>you could > >> > >>>glean that information. > >>> > >>>Mark. > >>> > >>>>On 4/15/05, Jean-Francois Laforest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>Hi > >>>>>Is there any survey that has been done in Uganda on the usage of the > >>>>>different operating systems i.e what percentage of upper/middle/low > >>>>>level personnel in different sectors of public/private business use > >> > >>windows(3.0,NT,95,98,ME,2000,XP,2003)/Linux(Deadrat,suse,debian,knoppix,m > >> > >>>>>andrake,icecream)/Unix(vms,solaris,digital unix, mac > >> > >>osx,irix,darwin,sco > >> > >>>>>os) and what ever other OS that has been imported/downloaded? > >>>>>-- > >>>>>Jean-Francois Laforest > >>>>>Senior Network Engineer > >>>>>Wavexpress, Inc. > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>LUG mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >>>%LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >> > >>Yours in service > >>************************************************************************ > >>Lule George William (Mr) > >>Network and Systems Administrator > >>Cisco Program Co-ordinator > >>Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi > >>P.O. Box 5498 Kampala > >>Uganda > >>/* The only reason some people are alive is because it is illegal to > >>shoot them */ > >>_______________________________________________ > >>LUG mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >>%LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >LUG mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >%LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
