[RULE] Conectiva

[Jason Bechtel]

Yes, most distributions come with Spanish
support, but you can always find some dialogs
somewhere and some apps that still appear in
English or whatever the native development
language (German for Knoppix).

Conectiva is the premier distribution in Latin
America, where these PCs will serve out the rest
of their useful lives (Bolivia).  That's what
people there know, not Red Hat.

Also, should these systems ever be updated, it's
nice to have apt4rpm.  Since Conectiva developed
apt4rpm, their distribution works seamlessly with
it and makes upgrading a breeze, like with Debian.

FYI:  We finally settled on Knoppix, due to
hardware constraints.  We didn't have time to
deploy RULE and most systems have insufficient
disk space for a local HD install of a complete
Linux distro.  Knoppix autodetects almost
everything.  There's no way we could've setup
50-80 PCs, dealing with all sorts of older
hardware on each one.  While the hard drives were
small, most had at least a 24x CDROM drive, which
proved quite acceptable for running Knoppix.  We
could then use the hard disks for swap and local
storage.  Finally, while some machine had less
than 64MB of RAM, many had at least 64MB and ran
"okay".  We are just not sending the ones that
don't measure up.

Thanks for your comments!
Jason

PS:  I still might port RULE to Conectiva for the
reasons I listed earlier.  It seems that low-end
PCs in Latin America might benefit from having
the local Linux flavor.


---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: Michael Fratoni <mfratoni at tuxfan.homeip.net>
Sent: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:16:56 -0400
Subject: Re: [RULE] Conectiva

On Thursday 22 May 2003 08:56 am, Jason Bechtel
wrote:
> There is a local project that needs to be done by
> the end of this month (9 days!) to load Linux
> onto 50-80 old Pentium class (75MHz, 32MB, 2GB)
> PCs destined for South America.  They need to
> have Spanish support in as many areas as possible
> and we think Conectiva is the way to go.  It is
> RPM-based, so I know it should be *possible*.
> How long would it take to get reasonable package
> lists, though?  Or would it be easier to just
> create one special-purpose package list for this
> project (since we'll probably be putting the same
> thing on every machine)?

One special package list should do the trick. I'd
offer to try, but I
don't have the time at present, and given the
deadline, won't have the
time.

One question, though. Why Connectiva? I don't
know how good the Red Hat
Spanish support is, but getting Red Hat installed
and booting with
Spanish locale support should be simple enough.

---- End Original Message ----



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