On Tuesday 29 November 2005 12:02, अिनकॆत (Aniket) wrote: > > I am a student of K J somaiya engg collge ,electronics. I can help > you if newbies are your target audience because i am no expert on > linux!! Last month we conducted a seminar on linux for newbies with > similar objectives ,in our college ,100 people turned up and we > distributed OpenSuse 10 , all funded by the college!!Contact me off > the list if you think i can help you. I have exams till the 12th so i > am available after that. -- > The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX
That is so cool. Our college doesn't fund anything. Infact, we have an IBM Linux campus club but there is no initiative amongst teachers / students. Our students aren't exactly very enthusiastic about GNU/Linux. May be its because of certain experiments that one of our professors and I conducted in our college's internet lab :P We actually had tried migrating all the machines to Linux. We did succeed but the students and teachers started bickering about how "difficult" it was to work with Linux. We had installed SuSE. For God sakes how difficult is it to BROWSE the internet using SuSE?! But then they missed all the malware, spyware and viruses in XP. They didnt mind that their privacy would be compromised. They didn't mind their passwords would get out. They didn't mind that their IM conversations could be easily read! Oh and they CANT live without IE! That prof has left the college and I was too busy in my freshman years to try it once again! Now our college has bought some very squeaky new machines pre-loaded with Windows XP SP2 which came with Mandrake 10.1 Official. I dont know what they did with the CDs. I think they just threw away the CDs or something... There we a lot of them. The college must've purchased about 200 machines! Oh well, people will always be people... Now that I am a senior at college I am thinking of aggressively pursuing the campus club and atleast make students aware that GNU/Linux _exists_ :| 'nuff of my rant! -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
