Fred, I am really pleased to see that there's a growing Linux movement in Goa. It might be one of the things that sets Goan I.T. apart from the mainstream I.T. community...perhaps?
In regards to FLOSS software for Windows, you might want to recommend TheOpenCD.org (which you have done in the past) and also gnuwin.org--no longer maintained, but has a very comprehensive list of good free/libre and open source software. You're right--Mandrake has a really fine partition manager, and SuSE is very user-friendly. Typically, though, if I need to dual-install Windows and Linux, I boot up with Ubuntu or Knoppix and then use qtParted to partition the drive. My current preference is for (debian-based) Ubuntu. Does Goa have a community of developers, hackers, users, or all of the above? The general sentiment in this part of the world is that you get the most commercial mileage with Redhat and SuSE (in the USA and Europe respectively). Thanks for your regular updates on the state of Linux in India at LinuxJournal.com. Peter P.S. Do you maintain the Goanet mailman server? If so, could you install MIME-defang? It will strip MIME attachments and convert all messages sent to Goanet into text-only format. It can be quite annoying to have a post rejected simply because it wasn't in plaintext. Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > *** When my hard-disk conked, I had the chance to discuss GNU/Linux > with nel at arteksystems.com (Nel of Artek in Panjim). We spoke about > the stability of Debian, and the ease of Mandrake's partitioning tool. > Nel appreciated SuSE's user-friendliness, and said he himself had > Fedora on his desktop. What Nel wanted to know was GNU/Linux > equivalents for Windows users. So, as promised, am sending him this > link which tells you which Free Software tools can replace proprietary > http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Open_source_replacements_for_proprietary_software.html > and also another useful link (of GNU/Linux equivalents for Windows, > thanks to Ankur Chakraborty) at > http://www.linuxjunkies.org/articles/win-gnu-alt.html >
