> > > Your attitude sounds gives me a feeling of a monotonous lab setup (as > seen with windows based lab setups). > > As many engg. colleges have bought our FOSS lab server, we provide nearly 20+ major distributions (all major distro listed in distrowatch.com) with complete repositories of those distributions. If any college prefers a different distro, they have their choice to choose from.
In fact the complete kernel source repository of size 45GB (from historic kernel 0.01 to 2.6.36 is available in our foss lab server). Yesterday a Asst. Professor in a Engineering college had a look in to the linux kernel source code, and his opinion is, open source is the way to learn/teach in engg. colleges as the students would learn more from open source software) Now things are completely changing here in engg. colleges. By 2012, GNU/Linux will be the primary operating system of choice in engg. colleges in Tamilnadu. > Well I agree It is definitely a great effort to do FOSS lab setups in > engg colleges or institutions. But what really matters at the end of > the day is- howmany people/students have u motivated to use FOSS > based applications ? and how many labs continue to use those > installations ? Are they confident enough to try and /or motivated to > install FOSS applications on their PCs at home ? > Only the college management / staffs / students can answer for the above. If possible, pl. come along with me for the institutions we have been supporing (now exceeding more than 200+ colleges) and you can get the feedback for the above from them. > If FOSS lab setups can address these questions seriously then these > efforts will be very fruitful. > In the coming years, there won't be any specific FOSS labs in engg. colleges, as all the labs will be running with FOSS. (see my next mail regarding this). Regards S. Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
