hello all. I have finally gone through the entire document and would like to suggest some changes. I wanted feedback so that I don't edit it before. firstly, look at the following section.
--- Free and Open source means that the program code which is written to create the operating system or any other software, is available to anyone to download, try out and correct. This results in the creation of a very robust and secure program or software. The original code is freely available for reuse, programmers from all over the world can create more and more software packages, thus adding increased functionality to the system. Open source also helps in modification of existing softwares into small customised versions for use in various electronic devices like mobile phones, PDAs, television set-top boxes, broadband ADSL modems etc. Opening the source of software has also helped in the creation of huge computer networks called 'farms' for making full length 3D animation films in the entertainment industry. Due to its design, high security is built in by default. Hence Linux is completely immune to all viruses, trojans and spyware that plague most of the Windows(R) systems. This is one of the most important reason why one should immediately switch to Linux. --- we also need to mention the fact that the cost of developing such softwares can be distributed. for example if we are aware that there is a demand for a particular software and there are about 100 clients ready, we work out the cost. the cost comes out to be rs. 100000/- as a minimum. now what we can tell the customers is that they just need to pay rs 100/- individually. as a result the developers get their money for the work and the customers get a very high quality software at a cheep rate. I think we need to give such example which impacts a normal (non-programmer) kind of a user. this is because people may ask "I am not a programmer, how does this freedom effect me? I am not going to modify the source any ways!" secondly, I think we need to clearify the filesystem difference even more. for example in windows we have c: d: etc so the file system is leanier. there are more than one roots. so any one who has put his/ her file on c: can be accessed by any one. but in gnu/linux there is just one root and /home/user1 can't do any thing with the files of /home/user2 (home is the place where all users stay) also explain in proper details why linux can't catch virus etc. the executables r own by a user and in a particular session they might be used by a user. so the security is so tight that unless you don't have the root user permission, you can't even enter into some directories, let alone currupting some files! regards Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
