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Re:India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023 by zozbot234 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:23AM (#31244591)
> Indian government computers are still running windows 7 or so and its hard to get them to switch to Linux.

In many ways, switching from Win7 to Linux is more convenient than going with Win 10 and more recent MS products. This is a significant opportunity where real change might be possible.

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Re:India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023 by jayp1418 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:03AM (#31244839)
Many departments in Indian govt using CentOS
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Re:India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023 by paxys on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:01AM (#31244821)
How so? Who is going to rewrite decades worth of software to run on linux?
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Re:India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023 by zozbot234 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:11AM (#31244886)
Win7 software tends to run quite well in Wine. Of course some things like document/spreadsheet macros are more problematic, but those are not that common and can be rewritten.
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Re:India reveals RISC-V CPU roadmap, expects product by 2023 by rg111 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:26AM (#31246645)
Almost everything is web now. Have friends in TCS, and they get a lot of government contracts.

Almost everything is accessed through web GUIs nowadays.

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