Quoting Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Linux Lingam wrote: > > > actually there's a whole bunch of vendors in india who officially sell > > linux-based hardware. the problem is once the hardware is installed at > > customers' sites, do they even boot into linux? > > > > so would be wonderful to hear of 'genuine linux advantage' stories, if > > you know what i mean. ;-) > > I kind of don't know what you mean :P but I assume you are talking of > Linux deployments where the infrastructure has at least has some bits > running on Linux. There are a few of those including some like the Tamil > Nadu Electricity Board, Life Insurance Corporation of India, CESC > (erswhile Calcutta Electric Supply Corpn) and I guess even KIIT (in > Orissa). There's the Intel driven Govt Aided PC Program in Sri Lanka > that's a big number of desktops
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