On 12/10/15 05:18, Thin Rhino wrote:
On 11 October 2015 at 11:12, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
<sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com
<mailto:sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:20 PM, shirish <shir...@hamaralinux.org
<mailto:shir...@hamaralinux.org>> wrote:
> > we discussed about the immense knowledge gap about FOSS in India
among other
> > things.
>
> What were the salient points of the discussion?
I have never understood the noise around <My>Linux & <Your>Linux! I
visited their websites and the only thing,
different is screenshots with Indian Languages. Everything else, is
just the same that comes with Ubuntu or Fedora.
Same old open office, same old GNome / KDE.
Look just a little deeper though - well the message on the homepage -
the bit that says "more than an operating system"
As I see this, take source code from the web compile it, re-brand it
and gloat about it is made in/for India etc.
I would rather have you good people spend time & effort in
distributing Ubuntu or Fedora or any other OS to
people and teach people to write good code using these tools. Who
cares, what OS you are using?
I care a lot - I want an OS that caters for my needs and I want to run
it on hardware that I own. For me that's sufficient reason to go to the
effort of working on the distro.
You want to stop Facebook Zero and all that? Get people to access the
internet and show them the power of
free and open source, not by distributing some customised copy of
Linux. But by showing how, the free and
open web and free and open tools, can help them live a better life.
Yeah - we're on the same page here then.
See:
hamara linux on arm with solar
https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/527811768643751938
long range wifi
https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/566171467055124480
https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/566171467055124480
and where the only distro to ship with diaspora. Oh and we host it too:
https://diasp.in/
In 2015, writing / rewriting / re branding an OS is biggest waste of
time, effort, talent and money.
I beg to differ, we have a lot of people contributing to something here
that may not have otherwise done so - and we're not just re branding an OS.
You want to spread FOSS, build something like this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4hVG2Br1W1LKCmw8nSm9WnQ/introducing-the-bbc-micro-bit
and educate people how programming using open source tools can be fun.
Like the schools we are helping with an arm based rpi 2 school room?
They need out of the box systems running with the packages that satisfy
the Indian school curriculum. Raise a bug on Ubuntu for that and see
what happens.
https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/576433652873195520
So, as I said, more than an operating system. That's why people spend
their valuable time on it - and if it feels worthwhile to anyone, then
that's reason enough.
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