Greetings, On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, varadarajan narayanan <[email protected]> wrote: > On World Software Freedom Day today, here is a byte of reality > > Now, after going through a Free Software training camp, she is not > only computer literate but also declares proudly that she is quite > comfortable using a “Free/Libre” GNU/Linux operating system, something > that many computer-savvy people wrongly perceive to be too technical > or out-of-bounds........ >
There is a gentleman named Ken Starks who has been encouraging school kids under the Helios Project. http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/ Of course it is in Austin Tx, USA. But it will be difficult to get such quality computers on donation in India as we have a tendency to squeeze every cpu cycle before we even think of donating.. About ease of use, I have run the computer centre of an AICTE Approved Management Institute having about 120 seats consisting of thin clients and thick clients for MMS (MBA) students. and oh, with all the zings, bells, whistles of Multimedia juggleries with many different proprietary format of sound video etc. using Centos 5.x and Fedora 7. Initially there was some resistance and retraining required, but within 6 months even they (future PHBs) were comfortable.. Now this is for the duration of 2.5 years I was there. We are talking about Aug, 2005 onwards. Now couple of staff and faculty swear by the usability and stability. nuff said about linux usability.... Regards Rajagopal _______________________________________________ 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
