Hi, 2011/7/22 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் <citizenof...@gmail.com>:
> > > IMO, foss lab server at engineering college level is not a right tool, > I believe teaching students on the installation process gives greater > understanding on various aspects of the trade. How does teaching installation "alone" help in understanding various aspects of the "trade". I don't really understand what 'trade' in this context means. But I don't see how not knowing the installation of GNU/Linux or a specific tool will prevent a person from using it well. Again, nothing prevents the students from learning installation. Most of the FOSS labs are of the order of 30 machines. And all colleges should have much more machines than that. Let them try hands-on on those machines. > Personally, I felt fosslab server announcement is more of a noise and I > marked fosslab server poster under my spam tab. > You may classify it whatever you like and you are entitled to have your opinion of calling it "noise". But you forget to see how many students get exposed to FOSS with the efforts of Baskar. Without this excellent efforts, most of those students would still be using Windows and compiling C/C++ programs on Turbo C++ or MS VC++. The objective of this group is to promote FOSS and to make people understand the harm software patents and proprietary cause. And Baskar is contributing in a great way towards that. Thanks -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. Mail: benignb...@gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc