HI All: No word of praise/appreciation is sufficient for you who are regularly attending the book fair, braving your everyday chores and studies, and work and showing/demonstrating the power of linux to people coming there. Guys, you are doing the best that is possible!
All of you deserve rousing ovations at the next ilug-cal face to face meet. Tremendous work! One point though about a little pow-wow with amaar pc folks. The last time I checked, they were promoting windows for their machines. Like their low end laptops were imported from taiwan and assembled in their Konnagar workshop (?am I right?). Those machines were cheap, kind of targeted at entry level users, students, and so on, but they were kind of favored for Windows -- gave up on them trying to preach them about distributing Linux, at the risk of sounding like a cranky peddler. That said, guess this is as good as op as any to induct the amaar pc folks to provide linux (whichever flavor), as their default OS to the new customers. And, change the older ones from Win to Linux, or at least, dual boot. Takers? /Arin --- "A. Mani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Palash and I were at the stall for most of the time. > Soumyadip, Arijit > and others arrived later at ~6.45. The coordination > was certainly not > upto the mark... Palash said that SUSE was on the > one with the defective > RAM and FC3 on the other two. The Begali one was ok, > but slow. After I > showed "SUSE' to some, it became 'Debian' with over > 16,000 packages and > finally it was found to be 'FreeDuc' with less RAM > difficulties. But > there were lots of interested people. The blue > screen desktop is the > worst for demonstrating anything to newcomers. > > In the other PC I tried to chainload FC3 first, > then passed all the > usual commands for that particular kernel version. > It did not work > (cause it was Gentoo with some other kernel no.). > Anyway, as nobody had > any CDs apart from FC1...I demonstrated the > installation process a few > times...ignoring the network. > > The Amar PC people maintain the stall as some > kind of fish market > and with poor quality speakers. Which should be some > cause for concern. > > > Best, > > A. Mani > Member, Cal. Math. Soc > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Doubt Everything > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
