An one more thing, need i remind you that your favourite YasT was a closed source application until recently.
On 9/9/06, andrew colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/9/06, Victor van Reijswoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9 Sep 2006, at 10:55, Ernest, B.M (AfriNIC - ZA) wrote: > > > andrew colin wrote the following on 09/09/2006 09:25 AM: > >> I agree i think you must have driven a german car in the days of the > >> box shape BMW or the VW beetle. I just cannot compare a present day > >> BMW,Audi or VW to a Citroen, renault or Peugeut. > > Peugeot you mean? That is really trival so i will not respond to that. > > > plus, recent reliability surveys put all french marques at the bottom > > of the list. > > I was talking about comfort. And did the reliability test include > driving in East Congo? > > In line of that, it may be interesting to see what is relevant in > selecting a distro in an African context. Money is an issue as we Of course money is an issue but historical context is another factor to consider any why, if you have used Linux for some time, it is still recent memory that SUSE for a long time had no FREE version available for download apart from a partially disabled demo version. SUSE development was for a long time a closed process for a few select people that is a NO NO in the african context as OSS is to empower africans not just by providing them with a stright jacket FREE as in BEER OS with EXTRA's withheld for paying customers but a truly open solution enabling then to extend, provide services and and generally spur on various related inovations. SUSE/NOVELL is not that solution NOVELL only jumped on the OSS bandwargon when they realised thier IPX/NETWARE platform had become irelevant, they dont stand for open source ideals at all for them it is just another oppotunity to make money for the board. In comes opensuse,,, well we all know what that is modeled on > have seen from the discussion, reliability in a situation of power > outages, completeness when having limited internet access, ease of > installation when local user communities are small etc. Ease of installation is not limited to SUSE so that is a NO NO as well the MDK install does a much better job for the novice user, UBUNTU goes a step further by actually doing all the basics for u with out asking you what you need to install but also giving the power user to change the configuration to thier own tests. I am not > aware that this type of evaluation has been done. > > Anyone aware of such a survey? Come to think of it Francis from MUK raised the issue of a localized linux distro and i did not see anyone jumping up and down with joy about finaly being able to make a positive contribution in areas where the other distro's have failed africa. For me i see that as a great oppotunity we can actually then take the distro in the direction that would best suit african users. > > Victor > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- AC KISSA B.Sc Info Tech RHCE (804005213917312) | LPIC-1 | LPIC-2 (LPI000074540) To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. (zen)
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