DISQUS

Colin Charles Agenda: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

  • Ditesh · 5 years ago
    >> The MoU was signed, and the open source PC’s will have Fedora Core, OpenOffice.org and GNOME. This is a big win for all the projects dear to me - 100,000 possible Fedora, OpenOffice.org and GNOME desktops. Rock on!

    Excellent mate :) Really good news.
  • Imran · 5 years ago
    Colin, you deserve a Datukship or whatever they are for all your hard work for Malaysia. Are you really a full time student, or a reincarnated CIO?
  • Imran · 5 years ago
    BTW your software cuts out the tilde (~) from whatever I post, so my URL is wrong :( in the previous message.
  • Ken · 5 years ago
    Way to go Colin! Great to see this initiative in Malaysia. Only one minor nitpick though - did Thailand really turn down MS' US$35 offer? Last news report I saw said they eventually offered an alternative version (like our Package B) with MS installed on their systems.
  • byte · 5 years ago
    Imran, yeah, silly blog-ware. Must fix it when time permits. Surely a full-time student, but there's some more work to be done. If I was a CIO, I'd not be as passionate about what I love :) (at least thru experience with many that I deal with).

    Ken, it's been fixed. This package B thing seems to be "true". Competition is good (I guess).
  • Ruben · 5 years ago
    hrm..........100,000 more Linux boxes out there? I'm gonna love seeing how this ends up.
  • Eber Donn · 5 years ago
    When you say that the PCs "will have Fedora Core, OpenOffice.org and GNOME" do you mean that they won't have KDE?

    Do you know if the system will also have support for chinese and tamil? I think it would be nice.
  • byte · 5 years ago
    There will be Chinese/Tamil/Jawi support. There will be some KDE apps (if we need them), its in the planning stages, but yes, it should be rather GNOME-like.