100 Thousand Ubuntu Laptops Donated to Students in Pakistan
The Chief Minister of Punjab, the biggest province of Pakistan by population, is carrying on a laptop donation scheme for students studying in government colleges/universities that come under the control of Punjab Educational Board. The good news is, all of these laptops come with Ubuntu pre-installed.
The laptops which were donated earlier this year featured Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. I couldn't get why they went for a release that was so close to its end-of-life at the time of donation and by now, it is already dead. For me, it is the height of non-seriousness, non-professionalism, and kind of a joke to the students. I mean, if you are doing something good, at least do it correctly, if you can't do it perfectly. Now, many students who don't know much about Ubuntu, are left in quite a vulnerable state. No updates, no security patches, no software installation, no repositories whatsoever unless they know how to access repositories of EOL releases and/or upgrade to a newer release. And the fact that there aren't many Ubuntu/Linux users around here in Pakistan makes it even worse for them. They won't be able to seek help that easily.
Luckily, and thankfully, the laptops that are being donated currently, finally feature the latest version of Ubuntu, i.e. 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin.
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The laptops which were donated earlier this year featured Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. I couldn't get why they went for a release that was so close to its end-of-life at the time of donation and by now, it is already dead. For me, it is the height of non-seriousness, non-professionalism, and kind of a joke to the students. I mean, if you are doing something good, at least do it correctly, if you can't do it perfectly. Now, many students who don't know much about Ubuntu, are left in quite a vulnerable state. No updates, no security patches, no software installation, no repositories whatsoever unless they know how to access repositories of EOL releases and/or upgrade to a newer release. And the fact that there aren't many Ubuntu/Linux users around here in Pakistan makes it even worse for them. They won't be able to seek help that easily.
Luckily, and thankfully, the laptops that are being donated currently, finally feature the latest version of Ubuntu, i.e. 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin.
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