Asia Source #5 and #6
Field study to a school today. Well, a series of local schools. The marriage of ICT with the regular teaching method is nice. The local educational software is made up of about 67 CDs, each CD being tri-lingual: English, Hindi, and the local state language. Its reached nine states already! The sad part is that the government of India literally sold its soul to Microsoft – they have got cheapish/free licenses; the other company that got the tender ended up doing some ugly Mandrake Linux hack that is broken (so they’re locked into MS Windows).
I have finally watched Revolution OS. Can’t really comment much on it, considering lots of things have changed in the Linux world since then, but good effort.
More migration things today. I see where Synaptic on Ubuntu fails for complete end-users. I see where getting folk to edit the yum.conf file fails in Fedora. I see a lot of complete end-user failure points in package management that make it too hard for the average small office/NGO with no technical capacity to even want to bother with installing software, yet alone to getting updates. Don’t even mention source packages. I can’t wait for PUP to become a Fedora reality, I think I have my test-base to make sure it “just rocks”.
The other major weird thing we should all worry about is how Nepal’s king has taken over and screwed democracy. Spare a thought, yes.
