Dear all, - one small thought on this.
instead of just saying about the good things about FOSS, and money loss on using Windows etc.... - can we use this opportunity to show how using linux can be customised - in Tamil Language etc... More : - it is not just the student (who receives) will be using the laptop - his brother / sister, maybe even his relative would like to use them - if they cannot see things in tamil / related language - they may lose interest - if they can see and learn to operate in tamil (or their language ) it will make the student also very happy & he will be proud too. Let the laptop be with dual booting, and if we can get the first lot students to see this side of linux (customising and a lot of other things) may be he will start using linux more than Windows, and he may even take windows out of the laptop !!!. - even if we aim for 1 to 5 % of this entire lot of laptops to keep running on linux too, then it will be a big boost. I think you all will have more ideas in this. - what about commercial usage (in the sense - giving POS software to run in Tamil), etc ... may be I dream more.... may be I should wake up. thanks s.sivakumar mumbai 98200 10728 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
