I don't have a business support contract with Oracle - I don't actually have any obviously Oracle products here at the moment.

If I _DID_ have a business support contract with Oracle for any product, I think thiis would persuade me that my money was wasted: this sort of little thing drags down a big business reputation. Oracle may have fantastic databases, middleware, people management software, hardware, Linux OS, Java - in rough order of importance to Oracle - but this shows that they can't be trusted to do well with small things.I'd trust their lawyers to draft a good contract, favourable to them but I can't trust them to know their own products, own codebase or even what they have to do with them.

Run, don't walk away from Oracle products as fast as you practicably can or find someone else to support them for you at added cost to you since you can't rely on Oracle and produce a backout plan to move your business away from Oracle dependence immediately.

If you've been a student - get recommendations from your supervisors. Carry some academic credentials so that you can get to universities / higher education institutes / academic libraries. If you can afford it, take a course in a European universtiy for a semester or two. Connectivity may well be the biggest / most expensive problem.

Hammer out visas ahead of time - make contingency arrangements to transfer money - one of the hardest things will probably be moving living expenses around.

Find software developers to hang around with in the areas you're moving to next. contribute to FLOSS in an international team before you go?

Be prepared to learn (human) languages as needed, even if only enough to order food from a street stall / cafe or whatever. Be prepared to live like a local and life is always easier.

Wubi

Virtualbox and a standard virtual image

Pack an ubuntu mirror - if network access is slow, it will help.

As others have suggested, LTSP will work if you set the machines to boot from the network.

All this is good. Shortbread and cakes made with your daughters, family meals enjoyed if you can. Family recipes which bring back laughter and times shared. My Dad still has a lump in his throat when he talks about his mother's shortbread / berates her for always leaving him to do the cooking :) I remember my grandmother just before she died hiding sweets for me in her bedclothes and telling me stories. Hugs and smells and memories of perfume. Being told what the flowers are in her favourite garden / making mud pies - whatever it takes to have physical experiences too.

But is it faster than the 5000 char per second / 30 mile an hour tape I have on MY Colossus Mk 1?
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Yes, Fedora's about a terabyte at the moment (still got 9 on the mirror), Debian's 400GB
Centos, EPEL, OpenSuse but the really big one is NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD which can fill 1.5TB

I have relatively mild cerebral palsy. Some problems working with my hands, a stutter very occasionally which gets worse with nerves. I'm bloody lucky. Fine muscular control also, obviously, affects the larynx. A good many of my friends have scanning speech/slurred speech as well as muscle control problems. Intention tremor, where something gets harder to do the more you concentrate on it, is also not uncommon. Once you can find the appropriate solution for somebody, you can watch them grow in confidence and ability to communicate freely. Voice input is fine for the visually impaired but it's not a catch-all. I'm not sure I'd trust it for more than "Open the pod bay doors Hal"

Former work: German Navy Enigma machine. [At home] WW II AR88 receiver / contemporary Morse key / 1927 BBC radio. Working laptop - 386SX/16 from ??1992??

Talk to the Bhutanese Govt. They're now using a Debian variant with localised scripts for Dzongha. Debian includes some Tibetan fonts.

That should give you 20,000 apps to leverage :) Christian Perrier who co-ordinates some of the Debian translation work may know more.