Indian Government Keen on Open Source 195
manugarg writes "The Indian government is distributing free CDs of localized open sorce softwares like Firefox, OpenOffice.org etc. to encourage the use of computers across the country. ZDNet reports, 'The Indian government's decision to ship free software in this way likely will be a blow to Microsoft, which plans to release a low-cost version of Windows in India soon. Microsoft originally hoped to release its Windows XP Starter Edition--a low-cost, feature-restricted version of Windows XP--by the end of March, but it's now aiming for a June release.'"
Re:India likes OS software (Score:5, Informative)
There are many other "minor" languages spoken by other people.
Mind you, these are not dialects. These are full-blown unique languages with unique written scripts (however, many of them do share common traits).
It is amazing how we are able to maintain a democracy, let alone a country.
Downloadable version (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why Linux Sucks (Score:3, Informative)
Re:India likes OS software (Score:4, Informative)
From the CIA World Factbook [cia.gov]:
Re:Windows vs Linux, my experience so far (Score:3, Informative)
And as to hosing your machine with a bad compile - well... its far easier for your machine to be hosed by windows update.
I've had more random "not work" issues through windows update (media player in particular, that I could only fix with a complete o/s reinstall - go MS for making it not uninstallable), than i've had problems with Linux that way.
Hose the kernel? Boot from your distribution CD and copy it back over.
MOST bad compiles won't produce a kernel at all, so if the compile fails your boot kernel is unaffected.
Go download Ubuntu or Knoppix, and see what the current state of Linux is, rather than basing your assumptions on distributions from 5-6 years ago.
smash.