The sucess of GNU/Linux systems would ultimatedly be decided by human beings and not just the hackers. We started learing english by trying to grasp a b c d e..z. and not by reading shakesphere. The nornal people out there would want a transistion from the mostly pirated windos environments they use. And for that the advocates of GNU/Linux would have to start from the Desktop first, and then show them the world of bash and VIM and Emacs. This would depend on the target audiance, students who are into the sciences need not bother about the desktop because they need to know the power and reach of GNU/Linux. Children would need apps and games they relate with. But the majority of people out there who are ignorant windows addicts would have to be shown the alternative first and here the Desktop would be the starting point. And I further think that the desktop is an important aspect, If am right then it was RMS who started the GNOME project though due to licensing issues related with KDE. And I think to call ourself hackers would be a statistical mistake, i doubt the percentage of people, on the list, who have contributed code to a GPL program would be under one percentage. Justin
Mahesh Aravind <ra_mahesh at yahoo.com> wrote: Maybe there are students for these too... But I cannot gather why *anyone* would need teaching for desktop GNU/Linux? Some people would argue that Desktop Linux in itself is an oxymoron. They are intuitive themselves. If anyone (dead or living) cant figure out anything by themselves, they won't stay put in the Linux world any longer than I can count on my fingers...!!! Whats any need for teaching in OOo (ok there some quirks, but they can be as well as be tips), Evolution, XMMS (???!?!?!), and xine (you gotta be a video codec junkie to swallow some concepts like video interlacing and FPS drop rate). In the same spirit of GNU/Linux, the system is by hackers for hackers... There is no place for spoon feeding, any query can be cleared, but be sure you have done yout homework!! Regards (no offence to anyone), Mahesh Aravind. -- PS: Although why would anyone want something like OOo when they've got Emacs, TeX and dvipdf? "M.Balakrishna Pillai" <mbpillai at asianetindia.com> wrote: hi all Any body interested in teachig GNU/Linux desktop applications like web browsers, evolution, Openoffice, xmms, xine etc, and ofcourse free and open source software concepts. Present location Ernakulam. With regards M.Balakrishna Pillai _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list Mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org --------------------------------- Blab-away for as little as 1?/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice._______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list Mailinglist at ilug-cochin.org http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20060407/d6dbd0ed/attachment.htm
