Hi All, This is a thread to identify the points each one feels could be the reason why *nix systems are not widely used as compared to M$ systems. Would prefer if people would append their view as points to the list, so in the end we still have a consolidated list. [Some of the points are based on personal opinion]
Problems: --------------- 1. Most of the college labs find it easy to install M$ systems on larger scales, cos the network configuration ease [read tools easily available] Firewalls and restrictions implementing softwares [just click click click] 2. Most of the profs are also not that well versed with *nix systems and have some apprehension to work on them, prefer M$ cos of usability issues 3. Since most of the students do not get exposed to *nux systems in colleges the non-adventurers too develop an inhibition for it. 4. Most of the colleges teach C/C++ on Borland or Turbo C [DOS] versions and not on *nix systems. Solutions ------------- 1. For allowing more colleges to adopt *nix systems, we people can/should volunteer to teach and assist the college staff to setup systems, and provide support [at a nominal fee] 2. Have more lectures in colleges to get students acquainted with the system. 3. Guide them how to use vi/emac [or ur favourite IDE] with ease for development. Please add yours suggestions to the list. -- Regards Varun Mehta http://varun.cjb.net *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* imagination is more important then knowledge *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
