Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> And the Nigerian government chose Windows [It didn't] why?
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> | That’s precisely what Nigeria did. Having used the Classmate with
> | Mandriva installed, I simply can’t find any flaws in the system that
> | would lead to such a switch. No deficiencies compared to Windows, no
> | performance problems, no installation problems, nothing. Mandriva just
> | works in this setting and works well. No wonder François Bancilhon was
> | angry.
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> http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1338
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Mandriva 2008 "just works" in lots of settings. I chose it for my desktop
after getting tired of Gentoo updates running over 12 hours at a clip; and
needing TLC due to many ~x86 packages. Don't get me wrong, I love Gentoo,
but the updates can be tedious on a six-year old box. The Mandriva One
livecd works perfectly with all six of my family's desktops , some older,
some fairly recent, with eye-candy and wireless (4 different chipsets)
enabled out of the box sans hassle. I'll be taking that CD along on road
trips from now on.
My two boys (7 and 9 years old) have their own desktops, each with PCLinuxOS
(Mandriva derivative) and a dual-boot to Windows for the CD games that
don't run under wine. The PCLinuxOS boxen each run squid/dansguardian
filtering with weekly blacklist updates, to shield them from access to
age-inappropriate sites. The $70/year for weekly blacklist updates is a
bargain.
Networking on the Windows side is verboten. They've been on this setup for
about a year, and haven't booted into Windows in months. Timmy likes
sudoku, and spends a lot of time playing ksudoku when he's not online.
Matthew prefers SuperTux. They don't need Windows.
Oh, and quality? A recent update to PCLinuxOS upgraded 338 packages on one
of the boxes. This included replacement of beryl with compiz-fusion and a
kernel upgrade. After restarting X (when prompted; no hacking required),
desktop reappeared as before, no fuss, no muss. Total time to upgrade: 25
minutes. The machine was later rebooted to activate the new kernel; no
issues there, either. Everything worked, everything works. On two
machines.
Who needs Windows?
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