[കേ.ശാ.സാ.പ] Re: [Debian-in-workers] Red Hat signs MoU with Kerala govt

On 6/7/07, Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > So what will happen to Worlds largest Debian Installation as a
> > project (IT_at_school) in the world?

The current IT_at_School installations will remain untouched. IT_at_School is now
working comfortably under debian, and there is no need for redoing the work.
I think it will be better if we could wait till we get a detailed info about
the MoU.

Not a single school I have come across admits to having a GNU/Linux
> installation. (50 and counting).

IT_at_School's migration to free software started off with a live CD (Ubuntu
based) in the academic year 2004-05.
A live CD was chosen to avoid a direct installation, and thereby the issues
arising out of it.
(An installable Debian based Distribution has been in use from 2005-07.)

The aim then, was to migrate completely to free software in a period of
three years.
In 2005-06, GNU/Linux was made compulsory for 8th std, and for ninth the
next year.

Starting with this academic year, no state/aided schools in kerala will be
teaching a syllabus based on proprietary products.

IT_at_School has also introduced a revised textbook this year, with no non-free
elements.

This year, the IT exam for SSLC will also be conducted on GNU/Linux.
It'll be hard for any school to stay back from falling in line from now on.

IT_at_SCHOOL does NOT use debian; they are suing a custom distribution,
> and the government of Kerala paid a hefty sum for that
> customisation.

    Debian based is NOT debian, same way that Ubuntu is not

> debian. FWIW, the IT_at_SCHOOL cd is Ubuntu based, not debian based.

The Ubuntu based live CD is not in use anymore. It was replaced by an
installable debian based distro in 2005.

> Is there any Technical merit for redhat over Debian, the community
> > project over a Social contract?
>
> Since project does not use debian, the question is moot.
>
> > Is it means IT_at_school platform will be changed to Redhat?
>
> Please read what you quoted above again. The MoU is much wider than
> just schools. There is nobody - absolutely nobody to support Free
> software deployment in the government. As a director of the
> spacekerala.org (or was it somebody from river valley? I do not
> remember - will post a link to the archive link today evening) pointed
> out on the FSF-friends list, he is single handed supporting above 100
> servers within the government free of cost. Such support is not
> sustainable in the long term, and will earn the community a bad name
> when the person decides to discontinue or is unable to provide that
> kind of support.

Waiting for you to disclose the name of the gentleman who is single handedly
supporting the entire array of Govt. servers. Even people from
IT_at_Schoolwill be pleased to meet him and thank him for the selfless
service that he
has been doing, and that too in stealth mode.
I think it will be better if we could spend a moment or two to verify such
claims before endorsing it.

James

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