Hi Balaji, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, balaji sivanath <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > Am thinking to create a distribution which will consists of all > softwares used in 4year engineering life. (you may scold creating a > distribution cannot be considered as project). > Personally, I feel that this is a good idea; but not as a final year project. During your course, get hold of your juniors, and may be ask them to create a distro, so that they can learn and they would fee a part of the FOSS activities in your college. > Due to some problem one of our lab is installed with ubuntu but within > 3months of time ubuntu is removed. Reasons are faculty members find it > difficult to use(!),they are'nt ready to learn new things(they need > only start menu),they are'nt ready to search for alternatives and to > use it. So am thinking to create a distribution which will be more or > less as like windows(so that they will not hate it and in long run > they will become interested in free software) and it will consists all > required softwares preinstalled. > We have done the same in our university - installed GNU/Linux distribution (Ubuntu) on all the machines in our lab. We (FOSS Club) also came up with a custom Ubuntu distribution for Amrita University. But, finally the University/College lab admins must really support this and also you will have to speak to the professors and lecturers about using GNU/Linux in the lab. > Tell me a suggestion whether to start this or to try anyother(if > creating a distribution is not worthy). > In my humble opinion, if you really want to do a good final year project, you can do much better ones. > > If other means, Is there any company or project centre to train for > projects in opensource. > > Regards, > Balaji sivanath. > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Thanks & Regards, Avinash Joshi Web: http://avinashjoshi.co.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
