[Ilugc] GNU/Linux primer
Hi all, I made an attempt at making a GNU/Linux primer at http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/gnulinux-primer/ To put it simply, just something which tells newbies what it is all about without getting technical. What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do you think something could have been put up in a better way? Or you think it plain sucks. Feedback and flames all are encouraged :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] GNU/Linux primer
Hello, On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, shirish wrote: > What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do > you think something could have been put up in a better way? The car analogy is useful for the USA where most people drive a car I am not sure it works elsewhere as well. I don't know what a really appropriate analogy is. Perhaps food/recipes/restaurants or books/libraries/publishers. Regards, Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] GNU/Linux primer
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, shirish wrote: What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do you think something could have been put up in a better way? The car analogy is useful for the USA where most people drive a car I am not sure it works elsewhere as well. I don't know what a really appropriate analogy is. Perhaps food/recipes/restaurants or books/libraries/publishers I used to use a simple household analogy - "We buy rava from the shop and we can make a lot of things using it, for example upma or kesari. The shopkeeper or the manufacturer of the rava doesn't inflict any restriction on what to do with the rava. Think of a situation if he does so, saying what you can do with the rava and what you can't do. To make thing worse, think if he says that you can not share the upma or kesari you make with your neighbours and friends. This might sound very stupid but the same exists with software as well." But the problem with this analogy is that you have to also bring down a justifiable relation between the role rava plays in your life with the role a software plays with your life. Actually you can live without rava in this world but not without software. In fact software impacts our lives more seriously than what rice or wheat or rava can do. Software, in this modern world, controls our bank accounts, controls medical equipments which save our lives, it is present in everything we use from calculator, to mobile phone, to television, to refrigerator, to automobiles, to security systems, and the list goes. Thus, who controls software we use has more importance. Rather how much we control the software we use is important. ** I developer this analogy based on numerous times I heard Raman speaking on this topic. Perhaps the later half is a bit revised version of what he tells usually ;) -- --- With Regards, Parthan "technofreak" 2FF01026 http://blog.technofreak.in ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] GNU/Linux primer
On Sunday 28 Sep 2008 9:11:39 pm Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, shirish wrote: > > What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do > > you think something could have been put up in a better way? > > The car analogy is useful for the USA where most people drive a car > I am not sure it works elsewhere as well. > > I don't know what a really appropriate analogy is. Perhaps > food/recipes/restaurants or books/libraries/publishers. maatu vandi -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
