Earlier last year, Kerala opened the doors of its schools to Linux. Now its the turn of its big neighbour, Tamil Nadu to choose Linux over Windows.
The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), which is the government owned entity that brings IT-enabling services to the state has chosen Open Source solutions over Windows-based solutions.
ELCOT decided in favor of open-source software because of its lower cost than proprietary software from Microsoft Corp. and other vendors, C.Umashankar, managing director of ELCOT, said Wednesday. Open-source software also provides better ease of operation and higher security, he added.
Further, this could be just what is required for the state government to choose Linux as well. ELCOT will migrate to Linux at the server and the desktop levels. Something tells me they might choose Ubuntu for their desktop. Last year, the Ubuntu India mailing list saw some activity and the name ELCOT turned up back then too.
Now watch this video and and tell whether Windows could ever come closer to this in the next 10 years comparing the sleekness and the memory consumption. Beryl comfortably runs on 512 MB memory and a decent processor. Here is a feedback by one of the bloggers.
“I’ve got Beryl running very nicely on a P3 800 with 512MB of RAM and a GeForce 6200 card. The only thing that’s slow is resize. Everything else is pretty snappy.”
What you can order is Kubuntu/Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 which is 6 months old. My personal advise is to download the latest version Kubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10 at http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php. Stable, no spyware, no viruses, runs comfortably on machines suffering from “low memory” disease.
Ubuntu has its new version released every 6 months. Next comes in April is Fiesty Fawn. You can also download an Alpha release of it.
I am not a great fan of NetBeans now that i am completely addicted to Eclipse. But recently I heard that NetBeans does a lot of magic with UML design and reverse engineering. So, thought I could try it. As usual, the “21 day” still applies.
This site really drove me crazy. AJAX based drag and drop and then upload is completely taken care by Java. The centre “Drop your files here” is nothing but an Java applet. Just View source it to see this….
