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Southern India Overtaken By GNU/Linux Desktops

Published by Robert Pogson October 25th, 2012 in technology. 0 Comments

Around 2007, GNU/Linux began to be a viable option on the desktop for Indians. According to Google Trends, the storm began in Maharashtra and spread to neighbouring states:

Maharashtra contains Mumbai the tech centre of India and represents 15% of India’s industry and 40% of GDP. Population is 112million. The recent hotspot is the state of Tamil Nadu, home of ELCOT which has purchased hundreds of thousands of GNU/Linux PCs for students. Tamil Nadu has a population of 72 million. The region where this flourishing of GNU/Linux desktops exists has a combined population of more than 300million people.
According to NetApplications, this region has 1.76% share going to GNU/Linux, well above the global average.

This shows why it is so important to have sites about GNU/Linux running so that ordinary people can hear about an operating system like GNU/Linux and find it on the web with Google or other search engine.

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.