Very useful thread. I am looking at a 2 GB pen drive to have the essential
ubuntu and internet hosted applications operational. It can be distributed
free or very low cost and can be used on PCs, without disturbing, whereever
internet is available. May be internet can be made available by roping
Anand Chitipothu wrote:
I'm a user of Ubuntu and I try to promote it whereever I go. Recently
I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu
and here are some problems that I faced.
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution doesn't play mp3 files
* Doesn't come with all Indian
Hi Anand,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote:
However i would like to say
1. Don't compare pirated windows with Ubuntu - ethically for a school it
sucks and they should know it - buying pirated software to teach kids
thats
not on.
I'm taking
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote:
May I ask where this school is located? Canonical also has partners
who can provide support:
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/partners/solution/#as
Prakruti Badi, Chennekottapalli, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh.
there is enough support for telegu and the fonts used are already unicode ,
infact one advantage of Ubuntu is that you could have multiple language
interface options - people can boot into Ubuntu english, telegu and / or any
other language of choice - again unlike Windows where you would need
Am sorry but the *real word* does not mean piracy, esp, not in a school
where fundamentals have to be straight - if kids are going to grow up
learning piracy is ok then i feel sorry for the kids and their generation.
Sad. But that is the reality.
Lets not worry that it is a school. That is
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:17:50 +0530
Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a user of Ubuntu and I try to promote it whereever I go. Recently
I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu
and here are some problems that I faced.
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:01 +0530, Parthan SR wrote:
[2] AFAIR, IndLinux was involved in some similar kind of effort. Gora
can spell more light on this
Make it a State List, not even Concurrent list.
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a user of Ubuntu and I try to promote it whereever I go. Recently
I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu
and here are some problems that I faced.
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution doesn't play mp3 files
Why does a school needs to play mp3 files?
The teachers like to show some movies and play some songs to the children.
* Doesn't come with all Indian fonts (there are some by default but
more needs to be installed)
What is wrong with
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote:
Why does a school needs to play mp3 files?
May be some audio lessons are in mp3 format?
What is wrong with using only one font per language?
I think what he meant was all languages and not all fonts.
Regards,
Aanjhan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't like to confuse the users to call what they already knew as
Firefox as IceWeasel and so on.
This is a school. As long as you tell them that they need to use
iceweasel if they want to for browse internet they
Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu India Distribution
To: Ubuntu India Local Community ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Monday, 26 January, 2009, 7:06 PM
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Anand Chitipothu
anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't like to confuse the users
May I ask where this school is located? Canonical also has partners
who can provide support:
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/partners/solution/#as
Prakruti Badi, Chennekottapalli, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh.
It is run by an NGO, Timbaktu Collective (http://timbaktu.org).
Its a rural school
Hi,
--- On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Anand Chitipothu
anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
| Prakruti Badi, Chennekottapalli, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh.
| It is run by an NGO, Timbaktu Collective (http://timbaktu.org).
|
| manage content for http://kottapalli.in (an e-magazine for children
|
I'm a user of Ubuntu and I try to promote it whereever I go. Recently
I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu
and here are some problems that I faced.
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution doesn't play mp3 files
* Doesn't come with all Indian fonts (there are some by default
Hi,
--- On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Anand Chitipothu
anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
| I can do that, but not the target audience.
| I want people who are not used to internet start using ubuntu.
\--
Sure. I had suggested that for a system admin who would be there in
the premises.
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| It is
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| What if an individual user wants to install ubuntu on his machine
| without internet connection?
\--
Take it from the local mirror that is setup. The local mirror can be
updated in the night with cron job -- automatically.
Windows popular in local community because they can get
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Parthan SR
parth.technofr...@gmail.com wrote:
Anand Chitipothu wrote:
So, I started building a new distribution with the following.
* A/V codecs bad and ugly
* flash plugin (from adobe)
Am afraid whether it is legal or illegal to package this into a CD.
I'm a user of Ubuntu and I try to promote it whereever I go. Recently
I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu
and here are some problems that I faced.
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution doesn't play mp3 files
* Doesn't come with all Indian fonts (there are some by
I'm a user of Ubuntu and I try to promote it whereever I go. Recently
I have been working with a school to covert their systems to Ubuntu
and here are some problems that I faced.
* Standard Ubuntu Distribution doesn't play mp3 files
* Doesn't come with all Indian fonts (there are some
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