On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Arindam Basu wrote: > Interesting question, Prosun. > > A quick counter question: why did you take to Linux in > the first place? Yeah, you. > > Was it cost? Was it something else? > > Speaking of myself, when I first tried to install > Debian in my rusty old 16 MB RAM/1 GB machine, I did > so because I started learning bioinformatics, realized > being in Windows wouldn't help me much, and I did not > want to dispose of my old machine either. >
for me it was the absence of any compiler, interpreter, useful tools like nmap, traceroute etc. in propritory platform firstly. secondly i was always comfortable with my fingers typing the commnads on any unix platform ! -hizibiz > Was it cost? maybe. I could probably afford a new PC > then, and eventually had one, but the fun of hacking > an OS installation for myself (or what it seemed like > then) was the motivation. Oh, to be different from the > Jonesses?? > > That begs this OT question. Why would someone, who is > comfortable with his or her Windows OS, who can not > care less about licensing the OS than about selecting > the shampoo, would switch to Linux? Also, what is the > current penetration of Linux in the Desktop user base > in Kolkata? > > The answer to the question about conversion of users > from Windows to Linux at the Kolkata Book Fair and > staying that way lies there. I'd believe that most > would evince an interest, play with the machine at the > stall for a while, then go home and forget. Those > who'd not, would probably start looking out for > ilug-cal. > > /Arin > > --- linuxprosun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any member increasing for the BookFair? We tried our > > best to increase the > > GNU/Linux user. bye, > > prosun > > > > > > -- > > Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: > > http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > > > -- > > 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!? > Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > -- > 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 > -- 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
