[Ilugc] On World Software Freedom Day today, here is a byte of reality
- From: raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx (Rajagopal Swaminathan)
- Date: Sun Sep 20 14:36:59 2009
Greetings,
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, varadarajan narayanan
<rad.narayanan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On World Software Freedom Day today, here is a byte of reality
Now, after going through a Free Software training camp, she is not
only computer literate but also declares proudly that she is quite
comfortable using a ?Free/Libre? GNU/Linux operating system, something
that many computer-savvy people wrongly perceive to be too technical
or out-of-bounds........
There is a gentleman named Ken Starks who has been encouraging school
kids under the Helios Project.
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/
Of course it is in Austin Tx, USA.
But it will be difficult to get such quality computers on donation in
India as we have a tendency to squeeze every cpu cycle before we even
think of donating..
About ease of use, I have run the computer centre of an AICTE Approved
Management Institute having about 120 seats consisting of thin clients
and thick clients for MMS (MBA) students. and oh, with all the zings,
bells, whistles of Multimedia juggleries with many different
proprietary format of sound video etc. using Centos 5.x and Fedora 7.
Initially there was some resistance and retraining required, but
within 6 months even they (future PHBs) were comfortable..
Now this is for the duration of 2.5 years I was there. We are talking
about Aug, 2005 onwards. Now couple of staff and faculty swear by the
usability and stability.
nuff said about linux usability....
Regards
Rajagopal
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