Hi All,
Yesterday I read an articall
about the Simputers ( SIMple comPUTER )
which are meant for the satisfing the need ofthe
peoples from rural
area in India. Peoples those are just literate or
low qualified but still
wants to know & learn about the computer can
take the great advantage
of the simputer.
According to an
artical, one software team of IIT is developing these
simputers & it will probably be avaliablein the
market from November.
Mr. Mark Mathayan of IIT encore team said that,
simputers are designed
& developed by keeping in mind the percentage
of literacy in India.
He further said that, these simputers will be
avaliable with a low prize
of approx. Rs. 9,000 /- only.
These Simputers will have all
the facilities which are avaliable in
normal computer. But they will not be working on
MS-Windows,
rather they will work on LINUX, which is freely
avaliable world wide
Many foreign companies have
shown their interest in this project &
asked for the rights for the production of these
simputers. But IIT has
not given the rights to anybody as it wants the
simputer to be purely
Indian & wants some Indian company to come up
& start the production.
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If we forget rest of the part of
this artical & concentrate on using
LINUX on the simputers, I think this is a golden
opportunity for us
to wide sprade the Linux in India & making the
peoples aware of
Linux. We can even add it in our projects TO - DO
list.
So.... What U guys say?
Think on it.............
Thanks & Regards,
SAMEER :)
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