[Ubuntu-SG] [Fwd: Re: [Bulk] Re: Ubuntu Users in Singapore]

[Muhammad Heidir]

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From: Muhammad Heidir <dave33bravo at yahoo.com.sg>
To: Chen Xiangpeng <xp at xp.sg>
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [Ubuntu-SG] Ubuntu Users in Singapore
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:42:21 +0800

Hi,

When you say that almost every country in the world is the same, you are
saying about the bundled systems right. Yeah, we all know its the same.
And about Dell selling systems with Ubuntu, well, they offered it on
certain countries, and that certain countries does not include
Singapore. I'm saying this because I worked at Dell, and have submitted
a suggestion on selling systems with Ubuntu pre-installed as an option.
Apparently it is a work in progress and it's been a year since I last
submitted that suggestion. I dont think Dell thinks there is a market
for Singapore.

About the Asus eePC, it is a good introduction but still better
promotion is needed. That is what I feel. Singaporeans, dont bother
about what Operating System PCs run on. They just want something that
works.

All I could think of, is there a way for us to promote the use of
GNU/Linux to the community. Telling them about the advantages and
disadvantages and provide a comparison.

I hope there is someway, we can do this sort of promotion, either at IT
show or even at a fair. If only we have the resources.

Thank you.

supervivid

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 16:23 +0800, Chen Xiangpeng wrote: 

> Oh hi,
> 
> I personally been very dormant in the scene for the past 6 months due
> to a very busy work schedule. Not too sure what happened to the other
> guys :)
> 
> As for your question about not being able to choose operating systems
> for your pc/laptops, rest assure that it's the same with almost every
> other country in the world. The only recent breakthrough came in the
> form of dell selling ubuntu loaded laptops as well as the eeepcs by
> asus, which also come preloaded with linux.
> 
> As for the adoption of openoffice, even mindef is not adopting 100%.
> There are still machines with ms office licenses being deployed in
> mindef for the sake of interoperatiblity(LOL). As for a secure
> operating system, I do wish that mindef take a look at SELinux(google
> it :). Well, switching the entire organisation(which SAF claims is the
> largest in sg) is not an easy task. Re-training all users to use linux
> is another headache too.
> 
> You might wanna check out the lugs mailing list. It's definitely more
> "alive" than this list :P
> 
> XP



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