hello there..

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?!?

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.

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.

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.