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I suggest we start with the desktop side, for the following reasons:
1. We can still allow users to remote to those Windows based systems we cannot get rid off immediately, e.g. Pastel and AccPac, it can be installed on central Windows server and allow VNC to various users using Linux desktop.
2. It may not be easy to immediately migrate their server side as they have already invested in many expensive systems which need careful migration strategy, but desktop systems as per 1. above
3. We can realise immediate huge savings on dekstop licenses, Treasury may be happy because desktop licensing was identified as one of their huge costs per annum.I still believe in this motto “make it work, they will all want to use it”. I suggest after we agreed which community distro we are going with let’s say Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, then the following happens to ensure we are faster innovating a custom distro for public sector:
1. We need to create a google shared spreadsheet where we will all populate with current commercial software we know our departments are utilising, this will help us start thinking and considering replacing them later on with OSS alternatives, or be prepared to keep their underlying proprietary OSs (partial migration to OSS). We may need the spread sheet to have column for “OSS Alternative”
2. Everyone of us download that common agreed Ubuntu version and install it on a VM or straight on a physical machine.
3. Install agreed office suite and start testing >> share the results.
4. Start experimenting with installation of BAS, LOGIS, etc (common government systems). By the way I guess we may ask the developers to recompile these systems on Linux so we can have a Linux executable to
install.5. Start installing the OSS alternatives of other existing proprietary applications as loaded on the spreadsheet >> share the test results
6. Have presentations in our meetings on progress made.
7. Agree on at least a BETA that we can start presenting at various forums.
8. Present to the right people at SITA and Treasury with indication of the cost savings we will make for government.
9. Present to committees like the 4IR committee, GovTech and various other forums where we can be able to make noise and be heard.
OS that is certified to run existing enterprise software like SAP, that is a very important consideration. Then in that case I agree with licensing server side and customising our own desktop.
I am going to post a suggested implementation strategy in the implementation thread of this forum.
If we possibly go with Aslam’s suggestion of localising a supported distro, who will pay support licensing while we are still experimenting?
Or we just take it and start building on it, then are we not going to have issues again convincing government to cut on licensing but still require them to pay for licenses of an enterprise linux?
I am suggesting we play around with the community versions of the enterprise distros, so it becomes easier to upgrade to enterprise without much trouble when we want support later for mission critical servers.
I tried installing on Ubuntu 19.10 and this is the error I got:
~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i onlyoffice-desktopeditors_amd64.deb[sudo] password for prince:
Selecting previously unselected package onlyoffice-desktopeditors.
(Reading database … 237401 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack onlyoffice-desktopeditors_amd64.deb …
Unpacking onlyoffice-desktopeditors (5.4.1-33) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of onlyoffice-desktopeditors:
onlyoffice-desktopeditors depends on libgtkglext1 (>= 1.0); however:
Package libgtkglext1 is not installed.
onlyoffice-desktopeditors depends on fonts-crosextra-carlito; however:
Package fonts-crosextra-carlito is not installed.dpkg: error processing package onlyoffice-desktopeditors (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.32.0-1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.63ubuntu1) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
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