On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 10:12 am, Vinayakam Murugan wrote:
Before you go head long into this, please consider following.
in my opinion, this is an overengineered solution which will never work. The way to go is incremental changes. Start small with one or two machines, see how it goes. Experiment with various set ups and software. If it goes fine, expand. Keep the old running and progressively migrate to the new.
True. But doing the detailed analysis first would definitely help. The implementation can be in phases. But then some people believe in reducing the number of cigarettes in phases till null whereas some believe in abstaining totally from day one. :-)
the real bottleneck for the OP is in the dtp stuff. Inkscape is not corel draw, scribus is not pagemaker and the gimp is not photoshop. The devnagri fonts available in unicode are also few. He has to first set up a machine with all of this and see if it fulfills his dtp needs. The rest - mail, office etc are tried and tested in linux and if he uses a newbie friendly distro like mandrake he should have not problem.
The implementation can be in phases. But then some people believe in reducing the number of cigarettes in phases till null whereas some believe in abstaining totally from day one. :-)
this analogy doesnt apply