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On 2012-12-27 15:05, Amichai Rotman wrote:<br>
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<div style="">It would've been nice to start a website where
people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of
installing / using FLOSS in Israel:</div>
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As I see it, the problem is maintaining the site, not the
initialization of it. Are crowd is small, the world is big, English
wise.<br>
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<div style="">* A hardware DB where they can look up a device by
category (i.e. Motherboard) and check the compatibility sorted
by distro etc.</div>
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Google it, coping vendor specifications to the site is probably, not
the idea, and if there are no vendor specifications are are site
will have less then the net.<br>
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<div style="">* A list of Israeli Linux friendly vendors
(including vendors outside Israel that are willing to ship
their products to Israel hustle free).</div>
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There are one and a half Pre-installed Linux PC/Laptops ready for
shipment. But, by the time one of us gets an experience of the
ordeal, it will not be relevant to another. First two in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linuxpreloaded.com">http://linuxpreloaded.com</a> ie. System76, ZaReason are the famous
ones, don't know if and how it gets to IL, but even if I did it
would probably not be relevant to the next guys' purchase. How often
do we as a community do that? We would be better of just searching
"Pre Installed Linux Desktop" & contacting one off the sites
from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linuxpreloaded.com">http://linuxpreloaded.com</a>.
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<div style="">* Distro specific Installation Guides, pointing
out any common pitfalls.</div>
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There are tones of sites for that, sum in Hebrew, which I think is a
shame because of the reasons above. Computer installations is
English it would be better if all those sites would do only the
Hebrew specific sitings & problem solving. <br>
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<div style="">Such sites might exist out there in the Net, </div>
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Yep, we have a lot of redundancy, we do not need to duplicate the
web.
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<div style="">but none of them are Israeli specific or in
Hebrew and don't hold all the a fore mentioned features in one
place...</div>
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Face it IT/SYSADMIN is in English. <br>
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<div style="">Another plus is the fact that the content will be
socially contributed - by the users themselves.</div>
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That will be nice.<br>
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<div style="">What do you think?</div>
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See in line :-)<br>
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