Richard Stallman on Kerela's desktop Linux adoption
To learn more about the recently reported migration of computers in 12,500 high schools in the southern Indian state of Kerela from Windows to GNU/Linux, prompted largely by the recent visit to India of free software guru Richard M. Stallman, DesktopLinux.com contacted Stallman for further details.
Knowing that Stallman was still in the midst of his world travels on his GNU/Linux mission, we contacted him via email in France in an effort to follow up on our prior story about Kerela's Windows-to-GNU/Linux migration.
Stallman, founder of the GNU free software project, answered our questions in the following Q&A-style interview:
Q1: Can you describe what kind of GNU/Linux system the good folks in Kerela will be instituting in the high schools?
A1: They have made their own distro, emphasizing support for Malayalam (the language of Kerala). I don't know any more details ...
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