Thanks for the details Rahul. > Sarvex also assumed several things in my earlier mail. > No, the cyber caf� guy didn't install Linux. And no, my (non-existent) > granddad doesn't load Konqueror to browse. I open Opera (now FireFox) for > him and he browses.
These things were not assumptions. The cyber caf� guy, this is India and cyber caf� is a small scale business. Have you seen any cyber caf� guy hiring a Linux administrator, to do the installation and maintenance for him? Frankly speaking I have not! So seeing the environment in India where the owner himself maintains the systems in his / her caf� how can you expect that he has no knowledge of Linux? If he is using Linux on his systems, I can assure you that he is dealing with a completely new problem thrice a week, and he is even solving them ,otherwise he would have been out of business ! So your (non-existent) grand-dad is caring about opera nothing else What kind of user will you consider him Linux / Windows / Solaris / FreeBSD / QNX / etc. because he is using opera on a Linux machine he will still be considered a Linux user Sarvex Jatasra Software Engineer Acme Technologies 011-33030881 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rahul Kumar Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIH]Defining a Linux user On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:24:42AM -0700, Sthitaprajna wrote: > > its > > > just a personal thing - if you cant grep/awk/sed/tr/vi, > > that file, will look down at the person who uses only "grep", "awk" > "sed", "foobaz"? Let's get some more examples of elitism... > It wasn't elitism, and it certainly wasnt "looking down". Which is why i termed it as personal and admitted it was provocative. maybe i could explain it as growing up seeing one face of things, and then the face changes completely. An analogy comes to mind ... suppose everyone here starts speaking only English. Someone who lived here 2 cents ago when only Hindi was spoken (hypothetically) might wonder - is this India ? For him, it has changed. For the guy born today, this is how it is. (Please dont bring Sonia Gandhi in here now !) There's no elitism in this. maybe its just old-fashionedness, nostalgia ? or the-way-things-were-when-we-grew-up syndrome. Sarvax also assumed several things in my earlier mail. No, the cybercafe guy didnt install Linux. And no, my (non-existent) granddad doesnt load Konqueror to browse. I open Opera (now FireFox) for him and he browses. Anyway, my real point in the end was that to be a linux user (sorry if that term hurts anyone), Linux should be your preferred OS. That thought was ignored in all the replies. Perhaps I am again wrong there since some of us may also like FreeBSD or Solaris a lot and cant really decide, but use linux enough to be called Linux users. In conclusion, it seems most people feel its okay to operate a linux system to be counted as a linux user. You need not like it, or know that it is linux, or know much about Linux, or even care whether Linux survives/grows (no sarcasm at all). -- re rahul BTW, even Bill Gates is a linux user. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
