Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:59:44 +0000 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: "Daniel Taghioff" <Daniel.Taghioff@btinternet.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A simplified operating system for developing countries. Message-ID: <00110918594401.28899@marbsd.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <000b01c0490e$40096060$6337073e@oemcomputer> References: <000b01c0490e$40096060$6337073e@oemcomputer>
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On Tuesday 07 November 2000 22:58, Daniel Taghioff wrote: > > I am studying development studies in London, and I am interested in low > cost internet technologies as a tool for allowing people to organise > themselves to improve their social situation, espaecially in the third > world. > > I am looking around at low cost networking solutions like Linux, freebsd > and netbsd. What I am looking for is the simplest possible operating > system, which takes the least possible disk space, and will run on a the > largest possible range of 486 and pentium hardware, allowing text download > form the internet and simple spreadsheet and wordprocessing functions. > > The idea is that with a few floppy disks and a refurbished computer (with a > modem), people with access to a phone line (not as simple as it sounds) in > the developing world will, with very little previous experience of > computers, be able to install such a system and access information from the > internet in a text format, without outside support. > > Is this possible? > Is anyone already doing this? > Is anyone interested in doing this? I was going to write a long rant but this aint the place. I think food, water, shelter, democracy, rule of law, freedom from interference by well meaning western technocrats, come a little higher up the list than the ability to surf Slashdot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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