good to see responses ..
now, to set things right :
1. my comment about boss 3.0 hinges around my belief that
linux distros are more 'powerful' than windows .. they work
as desktops, servers, etc and also have appls like Ooo suite
included (M$ Vista 'includes' MsWorks 8 .. not MsOfficeX.xx)
2. ANY distro of linux .. ubuntu etc can be had on no payment
and on freedom to alter basis .. see things on an inclusive
platform .. use this and that and that .. use VmWare to do
all this .. no issues
3. i am NOT recommending BOSS .. i AM recommending use
of hindi and the 22 languages which have unicode codepoints
.. " i do" in my post relates to use of 'hindi' .. not 'boss'
so i'm to be spared being 'dead'
4. a response .. 'older hardware' is not better .. newer distros
have some drivers missing for 'older hardware' .. i need both
confirmation and/or denial on this (mis)understanding .. if i did
indeed misunderstand
..peekay
(btw kushal is fondly remembered by a top boss developer/
programmer .. nirupama or indraveni .. from earlier days of
debian (?) development teaming ups .. time indeed affects
friendships .. as do positions of responsibilites and roles that
are to be played on the 'now' timelines .. such a sad fact ..
let's take a few cues .. and fight the 'terror' of 'disagreeing' ..
and try the 'mantra' of 'discovering' our own limiting 'qualities' ..
like marx said .. we have nogthing to lose except our shackles ..
arthur clarke brought the world together by his 'clarkes orbit ..
maybe we can learn from him to bring our tiny world of
friends closer to the spirit of working together for common good)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Subhodip Biswas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [dgplug-users] Call for meeting : Discussions about
variousthings.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
+1 .. some points are too big for my little mind
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