Re: [ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-29 Thread Shrinivasan T
2008/9/23 Shrinivasan T [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Friends. The laptop provided by ELCOT is preloaded with OpenSuse and Ubuntu linux. But most of the people dont know how to use them. They struggle a lot little little things like bluetooth, installing apps, games, etc It will be so nice, if we

Re: [ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-29 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:49:59 +0530 Shrinivasan T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/23 Shrinivasan T [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] They simply wipe the hard disk and go for windows. There is no userguide or manual. The video tutorial in tamil and english is not compitable with KDE. They search

Re: [ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-23 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2008, Gora Mohanty wrote: snip ... the Chennai LUG? Or, better yet, ELCOT, to see if *they* had made any arrangements for support. How is the community responsible for some misguided initiative by moronic government departments. With due respect your point well taken

Re: [ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-23 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:41:00 +0530 Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Let us refrain from any comments on the department's comptency. IMO, ELCOT under Umashankar has contributed to Linux indirectly. Requiring vendors to provide drivers for Linux is one area that comes to mind. [...]

[ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-22 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. The laptop provided by ELCOT is preloaded with OpenSuse and Ubuntu linux. But most of the people dont know how to use them. They struggle a lot little little things like bluetooth, installing apps, games, etc It will be so nice, if we give a one day seminar on ow to use linux for all

Re: [ilugd] Linux Introduction class for ELCOT Laptop users

2008-09-22 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:16:15 +0530 Shrinivasan T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends. The laptop provided by ELCOT is preloaded with OpenSuse and Ubuntu linux. But most of the people dont know how to use them. They struggle a lot little little things like bluetooth, installing apps,