Hi, just my few thoughts on this thread.
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Baskar Selvaraj <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> what do you mean by FOSS Lab setup? > > > The lab which is completely installed/equipped with all proprietary > equivalent FOSS tools for doing their practicals. > > >> What are the components, OS, application you guys usually install? >> > > Nearly 4500+ packages from Fedora-13 repository (refer the fedora-13 > kickstart file for the components/applications that gets installed) > > http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/ks-f13.cfg-4500 Why only Fedora ? why not popular linux distributions like ubuntu ? or debian ? with ~30k packages ??? infact debian/ubuntu offers much more choices for packages for students. Debian has been very popular with scientific community. many people are no aware of such a wide variety of choice until one looks at the categorized package list in debian/ubuntu. These lab setups are a good opportunity to create awareness on such a choice also I guess. > > When you say setup, do you guys help them to setup or you do it all by > your self. > Both (Only in few colleges the lab in-charge/system admin. prefers doing > themself, rest we setup ourself). Well there is little use if sys admins set up themselves. It should be an interactive environment where everyone participates and learns. it is more imp to get the message straight to the people by hands on practise. regards, KM _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
