So Linux is the new-fangled word in Malaysia. Or would that be “affordable PC”, now with several companies getting into this, right after the PC Gemilang campaign/project was launched. We now have a “PC Mesti Beli” with an AMD XP 2200+, and a 60GB disk, and to cream it all off HP might want to join the bandwagon.
That’s 3 competing projects, all with Linux. The PC Mesti Beli one is coming with RH9 – which runs out of support this coming April – but its administered by the same company that did the Thai Linux roll-out, and there’s TimeDotCom helping with connectivity. HP wants to use TurboLinux (why?).
Chandra Devi thinks this is a piracy boost (in her article “Prospects of ‘Affordable PC’). I see Nan Phin comment that training is “crucial” and must be “affordable”.
Hardly affordable, when you see the MNCC offering an OSS101 Train the Trainer programmer for 5.5 days, at RM1,800. Bloody hell, some of those notes are mine. And in a couple of weeks, you don’t even need to spend RM1,800, as all this will be free.