It was on Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Prateek Sureka typed in this..
>*> o Please estimate the turnout.
>*>
>*>Well, the initial turnout can be between uptil 100 people if we try real
>*>hard. at least 20 or 30 can be arranged.
Well, I think 30 is a *good* number. The quality counts more than the
quantity.What say others ?
>*>
>*> o How many of your friends use Linux now ? Approx.
>*>Only one - me.... I told 5 more abt it but they are too skeptical or too
>*>busy.
That's real bad :( Guess _techie_ saviour Riddhi should go back to school
or sumthin ;)
>*>
>*> o What would be THEIR points of interest ?
>*>Games, Games, Grafix, Net, Mail, Games, Other Cool Stuff, Games.
>*>
You said it all, Prateek ! I guess that makes a case for Wine or VMWare
Maybe we can show people Win Games over Wine/VM. Set up a Quake
Deathmatch (err.. i do not really have an idea about games in Lin/Win so
plz excuse if i am talking thru me hat :-)But i wonder what kind of perf
we can get from P100s. Linux gamers, take up your cudgels.. robin
listening ?
>*> o Write to the list as to what the LUG USP should be ?? What wiil
>*> enable the maximum turnover from other_OS to linux ?
>*>Err... what is a LUG USP? - a max turnover would be proving to people
>*> that Linux is truly better than windows and will run well on
their machines (386 and 486 and P100 etc etc). It also has to be easy
to use and supported well.... People dont want to encounter problems
every 2 days.
Profusely sorry for having unnecessarily used an irrelevant abbrev. USP
is a marketroids vocab for "Unique Selling Point". Nevertheless, you
answered right on dot.
>*>A LOT!..... all our machines are 486s. (19 486's, 21 286's and 6 P100s - i
>*>did a survey) - figures are approx.... all have between 2 and 16 MB of ram
>*>and very minimal HDDs .
>*>
21 286's did you say ? Or a typo ? Linux will not run on 286 :(
What do you mostly run in school ? DOS ?
>*>
>*>PS- what we can provide are enthusiastic people to help out and good
>*>computers (owned by students themselves) but i dont know how we can install
>*>linux on them without messing up what they already have..
>*>
>*>Maybe we should think about distributing free copies customized to install
>*>linux properly with minimal user input.... the ILUG does have access to CDRs
>*>and stuff...
Food for thought.. indra... you have been conspicously silent on this ...
Busy ?
Alternatively we could install Linux on their coputers provided
they have a minimal parttion space free.
Shourya
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