Man, it gets very lonely here--i can only hear the echoes of my own voice!
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Is there anybody out there?
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Posted 11 months ago
Okay, 3 is a good number, i will get this off my chest--I tried to convince others around me to use Ubuntu, showed them my desktop, explained how they could have a world of applications with just one CD, even offered to make free copies for them right away, so they wouldn't have to buy/download, or wait for Shipit.com,(whisper: Now most of these were people who used pirated versions of XP, and 'RockXP' didn't work for them anymore)--it was like talking to a brick wall! What's with these Wintendos?!?
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Posted 11 months ago
chill dude.. when it rains it will flood.. water will flow through all the Windows.. then we will give them ubuntu.. like noah's ark.. who ever wants to live in this cyber space shall enter in our ark, the others will be using just 3 keys alt ctrl del.. oops it crashed again.. ha ha..
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Posted 11 months ago
To pursue my pet peeve further; we have here a veritable blessing that can assist the education of the underprivileged at practically no cost, and you will not move a muscle to give it a try and spread awareness of it?--just because Microsoft Windows has a slight edge over it where 'games', 'user friendliness' and other frivolities are concerned? (moot point, but i will concede it for the purpose of this argument). You will continue to abase yourself with the "your copy of Windows did not pass the WGA..." notification on your desktops just for that? C'mon..Wintendos snap out of your apathy. Just think of the cost in Rupees, of a MS operating system plus an MS Office suite which i believe is the minimum to have a working MS Windows computer. And then compare it to a Linux distro and what you get with it, without any strings attached. Doesn't anything other than the response of your joystick motivate you anymore? Now if you were an affluent American or European geek, who could afford to make split hair judgements about the technical advantages that Windows had over Linux, and vice-versa, in this or that area of performance, it would have been understandable, but for bog's sake, you are using a pirated copy of Windows just because your peers acquainted you with it, and you are just too much of a chickenshit and a cheapskate to try anything different!
This post is not addressed to the members of this forum, it is a message i hope, that will be passed on to 'Wintendos' of our acquaintance. Let me clarify once and for all what i mean by a Wintendo in the local context; he is one who cannot write a simple script to save his life, has no idea what a shell, or a kernel is, but will still swear by MS Windows upon all that is holy to him--he is your typical herd animal. I do not speak out of a sense of superiority, but as someone who used to be one of them, and so. knows them inside out.
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Posted 11 months ago
To add variety :
My other laptop has WinXP (yeah licensed) but situation is not so bad there.On top of XP I have : GIMP + Openoffice (with Hindi support) + Netbeans for Java/C++ + Visual Studio 2008 C#/C++ + Firefox + FreeMind etc.
With both OS the same application toolset is available. Yeah for games, XP wins straightaway. But the situation is changing soon with Qt 4.5 GPL, OpenGL revived as 3.0, Ubuntu going great and Vista crash.
Add to it the transition of Enterprise apps to Web technologies and Java, everything is making way for Linux.
Keep working on the problems people face during/post transition to Ubuntu. They face these problems on Windows as well, but silently.
With Linux culture they would - speak / become part of solution. -
Posted 11 months ago
Sorry about the rant, had a little too much to drink last night, but this is the Canteen, right? And as you said elsewhere, the lack of Internet penetration is the main setback here, as far as Ubuntu usage is concerned.
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Posted 6 months ago
Hi guys... Mind if i join... Hope you won't.
Well, i'm a college student. But believe me or not, the linux usage at college was very low. But now things have started to change. I always tell my friends use linux. They used to make fun of me, but ultimately the Tux won... Well now the same people are behind me to help them in their linux installations. I suggested Ubuntu, but there are users of other good linux distrisutions like Fedora, Open-Suse too(heard that SUSE has come into some controversial agreement with Microsoft Corp.). Many of them have moved onto linux because they're fed up with the virus attacks in windows, and thereby the need for frequent reinstallations. I just love my ubuntu 9.04.. -
Posted 3 months ago
Hi Guys out there .. I am an new member to this group who was bite by the UBUNTU bug. One of my friend gave me a audio file about ubuntu and open source softwares the speech was by our fellow member "amachu" i think his name is ramdoss. Hats off to him after listening to that i download ubuntu and installed in my laptop (though i am still facing some problems with ubuntu and my laptop's hardware) i am in love with this. i have even asked my friend to install the same ( he is also a gr8 open source lover). hope to spread the word to many and make them atleast try ubuntu once, because i am sure if they try once they will get attracted to this.
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Posted 1 month ago
Hi, here is one more new guy from coastal city of Mangalore. As we all know, Linux awareness is growing strong now a days, I have installed Ubuntu for 4-5 machines and they liked it more than Windows 7. Also, In kerala state, all the primary school computers are operating in Ubuntu OS. It's good to see Linux OS is gaining momentum now a days. For newbies for Linux world and Ubuntu, I recommend this version of Ubuntu where they do not have to worry about installing additional software's and additional learning.
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