On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Praveen A <prav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/13 nishandh M <pro.n...@gmail.com>: > > @ Praveen, being specific about the problem, it occured when i was > running > > on Ubuntu. [at that time I had an 'Almann' virus in my XP, which disabled > > safe removal of removable media. > > So now Ubuntu gets the blame for a virus in Windows as well :) > Am repeating some X-th time, unfortunately, The distro gets blame for asking to *manually, and wastefully* execute an exactly known, working solution to a defined problem. > > > -------------------- > > all th statements you made, I agree. > > I will try drafting, which will be posted. I think, a rough one in a > week. > > ther was a thread initiated, yesterday, reagrding the most fine tuneable > > distro. > > Cool! > > > Inspired by Srihari's quote. A distro wich is available as both a > > developer's tool, and also as desktop users tool.[we have debian and > ubuntu > > for the prupose, sharing much of the internals as far as i have read. But > > the discusion occurs in different forums. need to find more efective > > bridges.] I tried i could start the discusion there,i think i failed to > > convey the significance. or there is no significance for that at all, > some > > solution is already there, which I am not aware of. > > There will be multiple distros, because there are different things > that people give priorities. The idea is find a distro that fits you. > I use debian. We can't push our choice of distro on others. We can > make sure whatever improvements we make is shared with others. It > happens mostly as everybody pushes changes in upstream. > > > -------------------- > > The opinions i raised regarding user friendliness are not my personal, > > atleast in some cases, either it was from 'my own experiance in the past > wen > > i had only one system with no internet connection', or from the > expressions > > i gathered in the few hours at an ILUG tvm stall at kannur engg college, > > I hope you will come up with a list of those issues which we can work on. > > > from the public. I had real internal problem when i adviced Linux OS to > > people like fruit stall vendors, language teachers and drivers and all. > As > > far as i does, i ask them to be familiar with FOSS apps available in Win > > platform - OOfice, Gimp, Firefox etc, and not the OS as such, and never > > advice anything more than a dual boot. > > That is the first step. > -- > പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് > <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! > <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? > (as seen on /.) > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" Leonardo da Vinci #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
