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RE: [LUG] Yay!



Hi lee welcome back

> the situation was even more difficult in Africa the de-facto OS out 
there seems to be ripped off copies of NT 4(very virused), woops i left all 
those linux disks lying around those internet cafes how careless of me ;)
....

Sound like a you had a similar experience to myself in the Philippines.
Leaving linux disks lying around in the internet cafe is a good idea, but
then again most people who go to internet cafes in the Philippines go
because they have no (other) access to a computer :-(, and certainly no way
of downloading patches / updates etc.  So I guess they are stuck with what
ever the internet cafe provides. Those that have their own computers
probably never (or rarely) go anywhere near an internet cafe. Perhaps
persuading the internet cafe owner to go open source would be an alternative
route ?

My preference for advocacy in less developed countries is to promote use of
K12LTSP in schools, more "bang for your buck" , recyles old computers that
couldnt run the latest versions of linux (or windows for that matter) (with
gui) otherwise and provides good exposure (to school community). 

Tom.


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