Subhodip Biswas wrote: >> peekay wrote: >> >>> we limit ourselves for nothing by dividing ourselves in groups >>> in favour of or against windows .. and sometimes in favour of >>> or against flavours of distros .. and i see some in favour of >>> or against newer versions of the same flavour of linux (missing >>> drivers for 'old hardware' making the 'older' version 'better') > > Goody ... i agree
Umm...strangely enough you miss the point (that's both Subhodip and PK). If there are drivers that make 'old hardware' better (it is a completely different question as to whether there has been an assessment of whether the state and central governments actually use old hardware for newer projects), they should ideally be upstream-ed >> I agree with this overall call for unity. >> >>> (use hindi and the other 22 indian languages .. >>> use boss 3.0 .. use hindi keyboard .. i do !) > Why should i ?? These things are available in all mainstream distros > ..is there anything that BOSS have that is not these distros ? Not all mainstream distributions have 22 Indic locales, the tragedy is that for reasons best known to C-DAC (and those who align with them), they have either: [i] chosen to ignore existing language communities [ii] gone ahead to work on locales which have issues OPEN in Unicode To add to these, BOSSLinux doesn't provide a transparent means for contributors to begin contributions. One of the reasons for that probably is that the distribution does not have a 'in-public' release schedule. For example, Fedora or Ubuntu or OpenSuSE (or for that matter any 'community distribution') have a release schedule that is devised after watching how upstream components release. http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/09/14/a-post-of-no-importance/ has a quote from a member of the BOSSLinux team talking about egos. Forget software for a moment and consider this hypothetical case - you have a nice house in which you have done the interiors, but haven't done up the exterior. I figure out that I have spare cash, and, do up the exterior in beige (say) without asking you. Now, in this case, it isn't about ego is it ? It is about being a good citizen and figuring out how to get work done by working 'together' and being inclusive. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
