On 25 June 2011 12:01, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 08:47 +0530, arunthe...@gmail.com wrote: >> > The issue has been discussed entirely on the mailing list and have >> been >> working with inputs Mr. T. Shrinivasan, from the same. So I thought it >> is >> going to be community effort of the LUG. > > But there has been no consensus. I do not believe in press statements > and petitions, but if I did draft one, it would be like this: > > "We welcome the far-sighted initiative of the government in including > Linux in the specifications for the free laptop scheme and we assure the > government that we will do our best to extend technical support for > students using linux. We however request the government to ensure that > the linux installed is a fully fledged installation which works well > with all the peripherals - and not some token installation. We are > willing to provide expert help in choosing and installing this."
Sounds good. But I think we should rephrase the token installation part. May be ... "We however request the government to ensure that the linux installed is a fully fledged installation which works well with all the peripherals as otherwise the student community may not derive the benefit of the scheme." -- Asokan Pichai *-------------------* We will find a way. Or, make one. (Hannibal) _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
