On Tuesday 23 Sep 2008, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > The laptop provided by ELCOT is preloaded with OpenSuse and Ubuntu > linux. > > But most of the people dont know how to use them. > > They struggle a lot little little things like bluetooth, installing > apps, games, etc > > It will be so nice, if we give a one day seminar on ow to use linux > for all elcot laptop users.
Commendable objective but suggest you do it through ELCOT sponsorship. AFAIK, the laptops are going to students all over TN. > It is necessary too. I see more users remove linux and put windows > with local service engineers. Closed minds will *never* learn new things. With such people you are wasting your time trying to show them an alternate way. Let them exercise their "freedom" to choose. > It is our responsible thing to urge and train people to use linux. This raises the point are "LUG members expected to be tech. support for anything open source?" when anyone who puts out something on Linux/OSS platform w/o support for it. > So, please arrange a tutorial day. Since you have raised the idea please take lead in this initiative. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
