I suggest that a phased approach to be followed, an organization, a ministry, and then government. I suggest we start with organization of educational buildings abnya tal3mia, then ministry of education, then government. First phase 3 years, second 5 years, third 7 years. Many reasons lie behind such a recommendation. I cannot write more at the moment. Best, Ahmed On Aug 25, 2012 8:29 PM, "Ahmed Mekkawy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** I agree. What I meant by not offering more value than debian was about > the OS itself. Ofcourse the training materials are a plus. I do believe > that some big entity as a government needs to create its own training > certificate, just like what malysia did. > > * Desktop distro: > First I see that it should be a matching distro as the server one, which > means fedora (or something based on it) if we choose redhat, or something > based on debian if we choose debian/ubuntu. > > As we have a very large number of distros, let me summerize from my POV > what we need for the distro: > > - to be light: we got lots of outdated hardware in the government. We need > to use it and bring it back to live. Less hardware specs means less cost > and less hardware upgrades. I suggest we drop any distro that is based on > KDE, gnome, or unity. I suggest xfce, lxde, or something like that. > - ease of use: and hopefully if it looks like windows XP. Yes this what we > unfortunately need. > - important updates rate: we need low volume of updates, most governmental > agencies have very limited bandwidth. > - depending mainly on GUI and the CLI intervention should be relatively > minimal. > > This is what I got in mind till now. > > Thanks, > Ahmed > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I totally agree, Debian is my personal favorite as well. But to be >> objective, Ubuntu has the advantage of having some training material and >> courses from Canonical, and does not require being tied to another company, >> so you can get the training, and save the updates subscription fees. >> >> ----------------------* >> Mosab Ahmad * >> Entrepreneur in the make >> >> Cell : +201119942443 >> E-mail : [email protected] >> LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/mosab >> github : https://github.com/mos3abof >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ahmed Mekkawy < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> When I talked about standerdizing a distro to suggest for the >>> engineering syndicate issue, some guys suggested others. So I thought about >>> opening this thread to say why did I choose it and discuss the >>> alternatives. I'm sending this from my mobile so please execuse my previty. >>> >>> * Server distro: >>> I guess the real alternatives we got is redhat, centos, ubuntu and >>> debian. Let me summerize shortly my openion on each of them: >>> - redhat: technically competing. The good thing is clear training >>> pathes. But on the other hand I don't believe we need to be tied to another >>> american company. Paying monthly subscriptions for all the government >>> servers as long as paying for training all the staff is not a pleasant idea >>> for me. Remember that the syndicate project title is technological >>> independance. >>> - centos: I don't believe that centos is good enough for governmental >>> servers. Enough that the security updates are too slow which could cause >>> disasters. >>> - debian: this is my personal choice, technically competing, excellent >>> security updates, very stable. And best of all, it is an independant, very >>> large, and very distributed contributers group which ensures we don't be >>> dependant on a certain company or even country. >>> - ubuntu: from my POV, ubuntu server doesn't give any real value more >>> than debian. Except being dependant on a company instead of contributer >>> group. This can be better in some aspects like having official support. But >>> I believe we don't really need that. >>> >>> Will send another email for desktop distros >>> -- >>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> >>
