Yet Another reason to use linux...

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Saturday 31 March 2007, Sy Ali wrote:
> On 3/31/07, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Governments everywhere but in English-speaking countries seem to
> > be embracing open source. One example would be the Turkish
> > government. It has taken the unusual step of not only favouring
> > the use of open source but actively funding over a dozen people
> > working full-time on the Pardus
> > <http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html> Linux distribution. You
> > can read a recent review here:
> > <http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2441>. I haven't tried
> > Pardus yet but it looks very appealing.
>
> Wow!  It really does look good.  I'm going to run off and read a
> bunch of other reviews.
>
> I'm especially intrigued by projects which develop a new package
> manager:
>
> http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projects/pisi/index.html
> http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projects/pisi/PiSi.html
> http://svn.pardus.org.tr/uludag/trunk/pisi/doc/introduction-to-pisi
>.odp

I'm particularly interested in how well they use Python. See: 
<http://pardustimes.blogspot.com/2007/03/debugging-yali.html>. I'll 
bet it wouldn't be hard to hack that installer to do bootstrap 
installations in Xen virtual servers, for example.
-- 
Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
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