2010/8/28 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <[email protected]>
> On Saturday 28 Aug 2010, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can post an installation and experience report on both systems. > > > Please have a look at my signature text too. > > > > See, how many times I need to remind you all that schoolos is one > > stop solution of schools where there is no Internet or tend to zero > > Internet present. > > It is biggest fault in the design in Linux Distro that NORMAL HUMAN > > BEING can not copy/install VLC media player from linux system to > > another. HE has to run Crappy yum command which sucks my life all > > the time even at good speed internet. > > > > > > I am not into debate mood and not proving that SchoolOS is best, but > > it has a very good scope in biggest untouched field in education > > system. And one day it will be highly used Linux Distro in India. > > If you're promoting a product, the least you can do is give the > objective features of the product and provide some (again objective) > reasons why someone should use that product. "Install it and see" is > hardly a way to get people to use the OS. > > I'd expect to see at least the following: > > - Feature list > It contains Ebooks, > - Benefit list > 2GB is specially designed for School. Next version will be 4.2 GB bigger and will contain lots of self explaining videos along with selected pages of offline wikipedia. > - Comparison with other similar products > Other product do not comes with VLC , and many other stuff. We have done all sort of customization which a user needs. > - Special features > right click scripts. For example, just select pdf from nautilus and right click and click on join similarly gettting ip, external ip, download here , pdfinto, pdfjoin, imageconversion script are there at right click. This list is very long. I listed a long list of operation for which a user may need command line , I converted then into GUI applicatoins > - List of disadvantages, if any > NO. > - Support commitment > > See are trying into this area. Support of Linux distro is one required in India. SchoolOS will be covered. automatically. > Which brings me to the other, critical issue: what is the commitment on > the future of this OS? How large is the organisation behind it? Is > there a defined road map? > > Please don't view this as criticism or negativity, Narendra. In the > real world, these are questions that anyone will ask before committing > themselves to a relatively unknown product, and you must be prepared to > answer them. Hell, these are the easy ones! Go to anyone with some > experience in managing IT and see the sort of questions you face! > Raj, Point is not that I do not want to answer these queries but why everytime. Many of these things have been discussed long back when we announced it. Whenever I try to make any announcement , someone jump with the statement like "why schoolos" , I totally discard them. We did 6 episodes each 1 hour [2 month] on national TV on FOSS and educational software. This was the first of its own kind of achievement. This was possible only because SchoolOS. > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
