On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:40 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > please give me a list of colleges using linux.
It would be good to call the system GNU/Linux, just to give credit to the GNU project that started it all. > "Why use Linux?" 1. Because of its freedom 2. Because it reduces cost to null 3. Because you get the latest technology 4. Because it allows you to go deep into the system and even study and modify the source code 5. Because you get to see code written by some master programmers (students of literature are taught works by great writers; students of cinema are taught creations by masters like Sergei Eisenstein; why students of software are not shown code written by master coders?) 6. Because you can legally use at home the same software used in your college without having to either do something illegal or spending a lot of money 7. Because of its security and stability 8. Because students can really contribute to building the software they use (I am sure this will be exciting) 9. Because you have a number of options for the software you need 10. Because you can easily build a parallel processing super computer in your college! 11. Because GNU/Linux now supports our languages 12. Because the world is moving to FOSS! > "Why to shift from windows to Linux?" 1. Because M$ Windows is like a black box (you don't get to see how it works) 2. Because M$ Windows does not allow you to modify its code 3. Because (any way) its code sucks - it is unstable and insecure 4. Because in M$ Windows you get to use ancient technology like Turbo C or Visual Basic (ugh!) 5. Because M$ technology is not used for real high tech jobs (Google uses GNU/Linux and Yahoo! uses Free BSD. So many other examples) 6. Because most supercomputers use Unix-like operating systems including GNU/Linux I guess that is a fair set of reasons. Just ask if you need more :-) Best Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
