Colin Charles Agenda - Latest Comments in Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

byte — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:22:36 -0000

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.

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Eber Donn — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:43:02 -0000

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.

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Ruben — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:19:58 -0000

hrm..........100,000 more Linux boxes out there? I'm gonna love seeing how this ends up.

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

byte — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 02:16:55 -0000

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).

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Ken — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:57:18 -0000

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.

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Imran — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:31:10 -0000

BTW your software cuts out the tilde (~) from whatever I post, so my URL is wrong :( in the previous message.

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Imran — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:30:28 -0000

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?

Re: Sub-RM1000 open-source PCs

Ditesh — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:59:05 -0000

>> 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.