On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:28, Ian Dexter R. Marquez wrote: > > >> I do not expect to see the people living in the 'barong-barongs sa tabi-tabi' > > >> to have their hands on a computer running Linux (at least, for a long time). > > > > > I was going to comment on that -- MUST. RESIST. POUNDING. ON. > KEYBOARD. Hehe. (Sorry for the all-CAPS.) Then again, reason got the > better of me: ramfree26 is right, it's his (rpb's) outlook, can't > blame him. > > The thing is, we ought to do something about it. The issue goes beyond > having translations for tools that we think will give the country an > edge -- or at least a fighting chance. The issue, I think, goes to the > core of our system: education, for one. > > Okay, people living in 'barong-barong' communities may not be the > ideal target audience for Linux translations. Why don't we make them > targets? Better yet, start at the schools. We can't trust the > government to embrace open source -- I *am* in government: it's HARD, > believe me -- but that shouldn't stop us from doing our part.
A close friend of mine whom also our neighbor, engineered a renovation of an old school building, handled by catholic nuns in a sitio in Bukidnon. He immediately told me about a pile of 19 486's and 133's he found in the storage in the nuns-home, so a 'geeky-type' himself (actually Im his mentor:) we planned to put Linux in those machines. That was a week before the election i remember, with only Tomsrtbt with me and Debian woody 1 and 2 and the 5 identical debian floppy rescue (in case we'll have a hard time dealing with the CDROM stuff on the older boxes), I went with him and did an overnight vigil, swapping perepherals, dusting off the motherboard, and we've managed to get 11 of them in perfect condition. Weve tried a base install in one of the Amd??133 with 16Mb ram, in the morning. We removed some of the default services like exim, lograte etc., we only focused on having an xserver with twm in it, and maybe an text editor in it. not vi, or nano, but a light tt that would be iconified in the twm desktop. that we did with xedit, but the system is still slow that I don't prefer. We boarded the bus that morning with the 'unused' parts given to us. But I did managed to recover 4 of them back in the city and the other 1 is doing diskless/nfs in my system right now. We're still waiting for the nun's higher-ups' approval to get them a faster machine. Hopefully , we will do it as a server and make the slower ones as x terminals, we're planning to do with the slack 3.x each, maybe. And you ask me, who the would-be users for this? I'll be darned, your typical 'BARONG-BARONGs SA TABI-TABI' kids!. (you people really love squeezing that one out, dont you?) Hopefuly we could have that server next month, or maybe on december pa. xmas gift pa para sa mga madre. Those missionary nuns are poor too you know. And we're doing the services for free, just a replenishment of some protien, carbo in the stomach and a little sugar would do:) Also hopefully connecting this 'BARONG-BARONGS SA TABI-TABI' kids to the world. Yes, folks,to the Internet. if we could get them phone lines in there. I bet the so-called "ELITES" in this group are feeling THREATENED now. huh? "Do ya feel lucky?" Remember history how the Spanish shivered, when they realized that the 'indios' are starting to learn from books ? Bah, "OPEN SOURCE", Bah, "FREE SOFTWARE", Bah!, "BARONG-BARONG SA TABI" Get some open source iso and shove it down your elite ass! And do get filthy-rich from it. <spits on the floor> -- -stderr(Cagayan de Oro) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
