On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:45 AM, km <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > <snip/> > > 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 Well, I may be wrong here, but setting up FOSS lab might be OP's fulltime job. He has total rights to do want he wants and how he wants to do his job. Free advice is easy. Atleast, I won't be very happy when someone else tells me what to do in my job. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
