On 6/7/07, sujith h sujith.h@gmail.com wrote:
Lots of teachers are trained to use Debian. Now why this change???
you mean GNU + Linux.
Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 18733 packages http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
Read the link http://www.debian.org/ properly!!! :)
doh!!! I never knew that, after using debian for like 6 years. I never knew that an OS is pure coz it comes with 18733 packages. What if I take a GNU System and compile it on Linux or BSD , would it make it an Impure OS. I don't wanna start a distro war. Coz you can always argue about the manageability, portability, fedora vs Debian, Gentoo Vs Debian, Ubuntu vs Debian.. AFAIK none of the production boxes are just plain vanilla distros, they are heavily customized for the purpose they are meant to serve. anyway this was not intended as part of this thread. The real point I wanted to learn from your parent mail is as follows ::
Red Hat and the Kerala government will also work together to promote Kerala
as a global destination for developing open source software.
This is really a shocking news!!!
I wanted to know why you were shocked ?
Cheers,
Sujith Haridasan
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