On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subhodip Biswas wrote: > >>> peekay wrote: >>> >>>> we limit ourselves for nothing by dividing ourselves in groups >>>> in favour of or against windows .. and sometimes in favour of >>>> or against flavours of distros .. and i see some in favour of >>>> or against newer versions of the same flavour of linux (missing >>>> drivers for 'old hardware' making the 'older' version 'better') >> >> Goody ... i agree > > Umm...strangely enough you miss the point (that's both Subhodip and PK). > If there are drivers that make 'old hardware' better (it is a completely > different question as to whether there has been an assessment of whether > the state and central governments actually use old hardware for newer > projects), they should ideally be upstream-ed
> >>> I agree with this overall call for unity. >>> >>>> (use hindi and the other 22 indian languages .. >>>> use boss 3.0 .. use hindi keyboard .. i do !) >> Why should i ?? These things are available in all mainstream distros >> ..is there anything that BOSS have that is not these distros ? > > Not all mainstream distributions have 22 Indic locales, the tragedy is > that for reasons best known to C-DAC (and those who align with them), > they have either: > > [i] chosen to ignore existing language communities > [ii] gone ahead to work on locales which have issues OPEN in Unicode > > To add to these, BOSSLinux doesn't provide a transparent means for > contributors to begin contributions. One of the reasons for that > probably is that the distribution does not have a 'in-public' release > schedule. For example, Fedora or Ubuntu or OpenSuSE (or for that matter > any 'community distribution') have a release schedule that is devised > after watching how upstream components release. > > http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/14/a-post-of-no-importance/ > has a quote from a member of the BOSSLinux team talking about egos. > Forget software for a moment and consider this hypothetical case - you > have a nice house in which you have done the interiors, but haven't done > up the exterior. I figure out that I have spare cash, and, do up the > exterior in beige (say) without asking you. Now, in this case, it isn't > about ego is it ? It is about being a good citizen and figuring out how > to get work done by working 'together' and being inclusive. > +1 .. some points are too big for my little mind -- Regards Subhodip Biswas GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
