On 10/1/06, ricardo gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hello,
....
First, the distribution used was FC4 and not FC3. The
writer was mistaken.
2nd, the project was bidded out July/August of 2005.
Since, this is a government project, it takes quite a
while for the bidding process to go through its normal
course.
3rd. The project was awarded only April - May of 2006.
At that time it was not anymore possible to change the
OS since it was locked in the contract. Ubuntu/Kubuntu
could have made deployment much simpler.
4th. Company behind the bid was more comfortable with
using FC4, having won a bid earlier from DBM for the
PC ng Bayan Project. Company was a RH shop for a
couple of years before.
5th. Since the DTI/DepeD project did not include
internet connectivity, FC4 was more applicable than
using Ubuntu/Kubuntu. This was in the context of
installing additional applications. FC4 had most of
the packages already on the distro CD, while you had
to have connectivity to get additional packages for
Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
6th. FC4 ran and installed immediately on the hardware
platform. Ubuntu (version 5.04) had difficulty with
the video and modem setup. Available modem driver was
written for FC4.
7th. DepeD and DTI evaluation teams were comfortable
with FC4. They had experience with FC3 and RH distros
beforehand. Kernel modification and kernel sources off
from the distro CD was a requirement.
8th. STI, the training partner was comfortable with
FC4 and RH distros.
9th. Generation of a single disk recovery CD was a
requirement. Installation team had previous experience
in creating such a disk under RH and FC3 environment.
Because of the savings using FOSS and FC4, an
additional 3000 computers will be installed. This will
allow 300 more high schools to have access to
computers. In total, 15,000 PC were deployed under
Phase 3 of this project. Company believes that this is
the largest single deployement of FOSS/Linux PCs in
the Philippines.
Company hopes the success of this project will give
its bid for Phase 4 and above a big boost. It
certainly welcomes the support of the FOSS community
in its future Open Initiatives.
I know the above are facts, since I was part of the
team that deployed the Deped-DTi package.
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