Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-21 Thread Ranjit Bhonsle
It's called distro fatigue. There comes a point in time when people start to look beyond bragging rights about successful install and driver insertion, and want to get some work done. Ya, I guess people work with computers. I use it mostly for information gathering, computing my taxes and

[PLUG] Re: Open Office in Government

2007-03-21 Thread Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho
Hello Mr. Anand Kulkarni I was also thinking in the same direction. But I am not aware about how receive required information from Govt under Information Act. If you help us then we can certainly seek the details of govt expenditure on proprietory softwares. With the help of Right to

Re: Fwd: [PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nishit Dave wrote: Another irritating aspect was the way sub-levels of the start menu take up the whole screen, and fonts need to be tweaked in all distros except Ubuntu to keep eyes from watering. Do you find the default fonts in Fedora to be problematic? I doubt that that's the case since

[PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-21 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/21/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you find the default fonts in Fedora to be problematic? I doubt that that's the case since both these distributions default to the same font family. It may perhaps be due to the default fonts in Firefox on Linux - that's what I tend to

Re: [PLUG] Re: Open Office in Government

2007-03-21 Thread Kunal Thakar
Hi, On a related note, CDAC Chennai has come up with a new Ubuntu based distro called BOSS specifically tailored for Indian languages. I didn't see inbuilt marathi support. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/12/1631206 http://bosslinux.in/ Kunal On 3/21/07, Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak

Re: [PLUG] Re: Open Office in Government

2007-03-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kunal Thakar wrote: On a related note, CDAC Chennai has come up with a new Ubuntu based distro called BOSS specifically tailored for Indian languages. I didn't see inbuilt marathi support. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/12/1631206

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-21 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 3/21/07, Ranjit Bhonsle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's called distro fatigue. There comes a point in time when people start to look beyond bragging rights about successful install and driver insertion, and want to get some work done. Ya, I guess people work with computers. I use it