roy,
i am haapy to hear from you .lets make it happen .
we can try to find more intersting people from the community and can
organise this in the week ends .
regards,
sunil.
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:10:28 -0800 (PST), priyadarsan roy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sunil excellent idea...
>
> Local internet cafes are a good place to start with.
> Most of the cafe's use M$ unregistered OS and
> products. So what we can do is first convince the
> owner and convert one of the machines to a
> GNU/linux(preferably dual booting) box. Then give the
> Sys admin there a class on how to work around with
> things on GNU/linux. Then if the public thinks its
> good lets install on more machines. Never plan on
> converting all the machines to linux. Most of the
> cafes earn their living by providing game services to
> customers which may only run on M$ OS.
>
> UBUNTU Linux is a good distro based on Debian. Its
> neat and light. Comes in one CD and has all the
> necessary software. Its support for hardware is also
> good, I'v even seen it running on latest Laptops. But
> I tried installing it on a Dell inspiron 700m which
> was not successful. The only down side of Ubuntu is it
> only has GNOME and I'm a KDE guy. But their repository
> is same as debian's so #apt-get install kde and by the
> time I finished lunch I have my favorite KDE running
> in my office machine.
>
>
>
> > we can develop failover routing or
> > switching hubs for the
> > cafe's even linux servers can be installed in the
> > cafes for that
> > awareness is necessery we can organize this in our
> > weekends and can
> > form groups in order to do the awareness and support
> > for those who
> > using linux servers.
> > and good chatting applications with extenseble
> > features and good
> > user interfaces can also be developed as this is
> > another thing our
> > local people uses regulerly.
>
>
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