Hello, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i hope this wouldn't end up as a flame-bait but why > FC3 and not, let's say > Ubuntu? > but if the reason behind it is to serve as a > transition to the Fedora-based > OLPC > then that is completely understandable.
First, the distribution used was FC4 and not FC3. The writer was mistaken. 2nd, the project was bidded out July/August of 2005. Since, this is a government project, it takes quite a while for the bidding process to go through its normal course. 3rd. The project was awarded only April - May of 2006. At that time it was not anymore possible to change the OS since it was locked in the contract. Ubuntu/Kubuntu could have made deployment much simpler. 4th. Company behind the bid was more comfortable with using FC4, having won a bid earlier from DBM for the PC ng Bayan Project. Company was a RH shop for a couple of years before. 5th. Since the DTI/DepeD project did not include internet connectivity, FC4 was more applicable than using Ubuntu/Kubuntu. This was in the context of installing additional applications. FC4 had most of the packages already on the distro CD, while you had to have connectivity to get additional packages for Ubuntu/Kubuntu. 6th. FC4 ran and installed immediately on the hardware platform. Ubuntu (version 5.04) had difficulty with the video and modem setup. Available modem driver was written for FC4. 7th. DepeD and DTI evaluation teams were comfortable with FC4. They had experience with FC3 and RH distros beforehand. Kernel modification and kernel sources off from the distro CD was a requirement. 8th. STI, the training partner was comfortable with FC4 and RH distros. 9th. Generation of a single disk recovery CD was a requirement. Installation team had previous experience in creating such a disk under RH and FC3 environment. Because of the savings using FOSS and FC4, an additional 3000 computers will be installed. This will allow 300 more high schools to have access to computers. In total, 15,000 PC were deployed under Phase 3 of this project. Company believes that this is the largest single deployement of FOSS/Linux PCs in the Philippines. Company hopes the success of this project will give its bid for Phase 4 and above a big boost. It certainly welcomes the support of the FOSS community in its future Open Initiatives. I know the above are facts, since I was part of the team that deployed the Deped-DTi package. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
