Re: [ilugd] Key to popularising Free Open Source Software

2004-11-02 Thread Kishore Bhargava
Raj Mathur wrote: Finally, to come to your point :) I agree that, given that people are moving towards Linux for what I consider the right reasons, support is a critical function. Kishore and I were brainstorming precisely about this yesterday evening, but since we didn't have any b33r we

Re: [ilugd] Key to popularising Free Open Source Software

2004-11-02 Thread Anand Shankar
Raj Mathur wrote: The first idea (having a minimal Linux partition) is brilliant! How long did you have to spend thinking it up? :) I'm going to talk to my neighbourhood hardware vendor today itself and suggest it to him. Anyone else doing the same? Thanks, Not so long. Born out of Knoppix demo

[ilugd] Key to popularising Free Open Source Software

2004-11-01 Thread Anand Shankar
In various discussions at various forums, one thing has emerged clearly: The one thing which has prevented wide-spread adoption of Free Open Source Software at the common man's desktop is lack of perceptible support. Though, all of us talk about ample documentation and mailing lists based

Re: [ilugd] Key to popularising Free Open Source Software

2004-11-01 Thread Shashikant Purohit
Hi I like the ideas suggested by anand Shankar. My own experience as an Novice ( 68 yrs age) 1 I hv ddual boot system win+suse ...try to use linux most of the time and fallback on windows when necessary this happens for pgms not on linux/pgms i am unable to install. 2 When i

Re: [ilugd] Key to popularising Free Open Source Software

2004-11-01 Thread Raj Mathur
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