A few questions, few Off-topic, and few others related.
1. What differs in a OEM product and a boxed product? This is in terms of CD-RW / DVD-R/RW drives. I have heard, in OEM drives its core (circuitry) is supplied by the original company, whereas, the casing etc, are assembled by the other. Boxed product include all necessary manuals, software and the drive is manufactured entirely by the company. Can someone confirm this?
2. I have received Ubuntu CD's of 6.06 (Dapper Drake) and 1 CD of Kubuntu, and 1 CD of Edubuntu, I had ordered for. Has anybody tried Edubuntu? Has anyone created a LIVE CD for Edubuntu?
3. From one of the emails in the previous lists, I came across, http://www.gnu.org.in. I didn't know, this portal was up, because, I visited only the internal pages of http://www.gnu.org (Philosophy, why GNU/Linux, etc). But, something that encourages me to be even more enthusiastic about, is that FSF India appears pretty distinguished on the website gnu.org Is it among Asian countries, that, India, is the only country, to have a portal and an active community of FSF?
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On Saturday 08 July 2006 06:21 pm, Roshan wrote:
A few questions, few Off-topic, and few others related.
- What differs in a OEM product and a boxed product?
This is in terms of CD-RW / DVD-R/RW drives. I have heard, in OEM drives its core (circuitry) is supplied by the original company, whereas, the casing etc, are assembled by the other. Boxed product include all necessary manuals, software and the drive is manufactured entirely by the company. Can someone confirm this?
Boxed product is branded (advertised) and will include freebees like drivers players etc.
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On 07/08/2006 06:21 PM, Roshan cobbled together some glyphs to say:
A few questions, few Off-topic, and few others related.
- What differs in a OEM product and a boxed product? This is in
terms of CD-RW / DVD-R/RW drives. I have heard, in OEM drives its core (circuitry) is supplied by the original company, whereas, the casing etc, are assembled by the other. Boxed product include all necessary manuals, software and the drive is manufactured entirely by the company. Can someone confirm this?
OEM products are not for normal sales or distribution. OEM products are made especially for other manufacturers who incorporate that product in their own products. For example, a Compaq PC can order CD-ROM drives from say Samsung to put them in their own range of Compaq home PCs. Since OEM products are usually sold to other manufacturers, they are pretty much bare bone since the OEM will then put in their own branding, manuals etc. Boxed products are for sale to the end-user, that's why they are pretty much complete in terms of packaging, manuals, etc.
- I have received Ubuntu CD's of 6.06 (Dapper Drake) and 1 CD of
Kubuntu, and 1 CD of Edubuntu, I had ordered for. Has anybody tried Edubuntu? Has anyone created a LIVE CD for Edubuntu?
Edubuntu is a Ubuntu derivative created especially for schools and kids. It contains applications selected especially for children and school kids. What do you mean by ``creating'' a Edubuntu Live CD? The CD that you got is a Live cum install CD.
- From one of the emails in the previous lists, I came across,
http://www.gnu.org.in. I didn't know, this portal was up, because, I visited only the internal pages of http://www.gnu.org (Philosophy, why GNU/Linux, etc). But, something that encourages me to be even more enthusiastic about, is that FSF India appears pretty that, India, is the only country, to have a portal and an active community of FSF?
The Free Software Foundation of India is the official affiliate of the Free Software Foundation located in Boston, USA. It's the only organisation of this type in Asia. We are organising the 4th International GPLv3 Conference in Bangalore on 23, 24 August. Visit http://gplv3.gnu.org.in/ for more details.
Regards, BG
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