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The Linuxologist: How Linux Helped 5 Poverty-Stricken Governments

  • pavs · 1 year ago
    Great article Rami! Enjoyed reading it. :)
  • BinnyVA · 1 year ago
    I am from Kerala India - and FOSS is taking off in a big way here. There are many LUG groups and most of them are very active.
  • Rami Taibah · 1 year ago
    Thanks Pavs, it means so much coming from you :)
  • Rami Taibah · 1 year ago
    Thanks Binny, interesting blogpost. The fact that you are from Kerala, gives it even more credibility.
  • mymoen · 1 year ago
    NIce article, shown us the different in another country...
  • mymoen · 1 year ago
    o ya, i'm use the same plugin with your (WP THREAD COMMENT). but, there's no running well in my blog. Please give me some advice..
  • Ragflan · 1 year ago
    I have a question. I'm using Ubuntu Hardy myself and I was wondering that with so many school making the switch, we're talking millions of people switching to Linux.

    I mean, 15000+ school in ONE state of India alone made the switch. That alone should tip the percentages even by a little. So, how come the market share for Linux still is at 1% only? Should it increase by a big amount?
  • Rami Taibah · 1 year ago
    Ragflan, percentages can be tricky, while there is no official way to compute the number of Linux users around the world, I can assure you it’s more than 1%. Just recently the world has hit the 1 billion PC’s mark, meaning that 1% would be 10 million users only, anybody would tell you thats not a very accurate number.

    In any case a small number like 15,000 or even 100,000 isn’t really gonna tip the percentage scale. You need 10 million users to gain one percentage point! :)
  • mynameistux · 1 year ago
    In the first video, they call it freeware, not your fault, but it annoys me just the same.
  • Rami Taibah · 1 year ago
    Ya I got that comment yesterday. "when I watch these news reports about linux on your blog you realize how these news readers don't understand what they're talking about. and you realize its not just linux they don't understand, everything they report on is probably equally poorly reported :D" was one comment :P
  • Sid Boyce · 1 year ago
    Published numbers and percentages applied to Linux are irrelevant. One can and often has on copy of Linux bought or downloaded which goes on numerous machines. No one can say how many copies of Linux I have installed here on 7 PC's together with all the virtual machines I have running with many other distros.
    Great article describing what must just be the big apples in the barrel. Most articles totally ignore the widespread use of Linux, mainly concentrating on the support licenses taken out with RedHat and Novell - lies, damn lies and statistics come to mind.
  • Khan Md Ashraf · 1 year ago
    Hi,
    I live in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It shares a border with Kerala. But more of a M$ shop 'cause we have a lot of big time IT outfits here which pay the M$ tax.
    Great job of telling the world where GNU/Linux is making a major difference. But did you notice in the news item mentioning the Kerala IT project there was no mention even once of the 'GNU/Linux' or 'Free Software' or 'Open Source'! Though if you looked for it carefully you can catch a glimpse of the 'Gimp' in one of the frames. I am sure the TV channel NDTV did not want to rub M$ the wrong way!!
  • M4rc0 · 1 year ago
    I'm proud to be brazilian =D

    Go linux!
  • Georgi Stanojevski · 1 year ago
    Macedonia where I'm from, bought 20.000 Edubuntu PC's with 160.000 thin clients for them for a project named "Computer for every child in Macedonia" and distributed them accros all primary and secondary schools across Macedonia.

    http://www.ncomputing.com/republic-of-macedonia...
  • Graham Bae · 1 year ago
    Hey Rami,

    Good to see you blogging hard for Linux users. Consider me a subscriber, I really enjoy reading your articles; keep it up mate!

    Graham.