Aggression is not at all an answer. First listen to the people around
you, if they don't have any benefit from your shout, it will end up in a
mess and finally every one involved will fail. You can say most of
hardware will be supported, like things to a techy person, probably he
will understand that. But the viewer for the expo would ask us 'x' is my
favorite game, I bought my computer to play this, do load this game on
linux. What will you say? Go and download, right? I won't think that
user will get every thing easily even after he got it, he should
configure his system at least for some sh libs. But for that the user
need some experience there, that he is not familiar in his OS. Every one
believed as a deciple of RMS will say always, did you ever see KDE? Did
you ever see GNOME?, but actually that is not addressing the real
problem. No one will get impressed by seeing images, are you :-)
Finally don't think GNU/linux is an alian thing that every one
is not familer with. All around us are aware of it and its growth, but
stay away because of this like number of issues.
What I mean is go for the expo with good games, good multimedia
and keep every thing simple. Finally don't make the users the slaves of
experts. They will not be happy to surrender their freedom to fabricated
'experts' rather than monopolies.
Bijoy. V
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dileep M.
Kumar
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:57 AM
To: This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU,GPL Software
Subject: Re: [Mailinglist] abt expo
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:05:22AM +0530, Bijoy wrote:
>>>Traditionally Unix is believed as the OS of techies/students, so
>>>all the interfaces are designed on their angle.
Unix and GNU/Linux are not same. "GNU is not Unix" refer www.gnu.org
Have you seen/worked with latest versions of KDE and GNOME[1].
>>>I'm afraid, linux is yet not become a good "desktop OS", but still
>>>we are going to face the users of such OS.
Some non-free hardware is not supported in GNU/Linux. Other wise I
would say it is the best Desktop OS available in market.
>>>It's important to make >>>an impression on the people to use this
>>>rather than a geeky >>>show. Well friends I request you to discuss
>>>on this issue.
I hope you also include in that "people" who need to be impressed.
[1] http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/screenshots.html
http://kde.org/screenshots/kde310shots.php
"Our future depends on our philosophy" - Richard M. Stallman
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