In the thick of the (delayed) monsoons means one has to put up with an additional round of computer-related woes. So, this evening, I found myself at ASIC in Panjim, trying to sort out a bad sectored-hard disk.
One of the staff there raised the issue. "Why don't you teach us Linux?" he asked. Soon, two or three others were asking. In no time, they had put together a list of seven e-mail addresses, all of whom were hardware techies wanting to "learn Linux".
Maybe the question was not put to the best person. (I'm no GNU/Linux guru.) But it set one thinking....
What can be done to promote GNU/Linux among new users? And also among Windows techies and hardware people, who could then spread it further?
Two suggestions:
* Tips on GNU/Linux targetted at newbies, to help them take up a kind of self-learning process... Such tips could be of the how-to-get-started type.
* Holding a few demos of various installs. Andrew asked: "Please let us know when you'll will demo an install." He underlined the need for handholding for new users to get past the partitioning stage.
Any volunteers to take these possibilities forward? Pls contact me off-list. Thanks, FN
--- Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org wrote:
Any volunteers to take these possibilities forward? Pls contact me
[snip] hello FN...;)
For Evangelising abt gnu-linx and Free Software in general just givve me a buzz nd i'll be more than keen to take up a workshop covering a whole range of Technical - Educational - Business - Management issues related to Free Software / Gnu-linux.
I would only ask for the concerned group to pay for me travel & lodging-boarding expenses.
Trevor
off-list. Thanks, FN
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--- Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org wrote:
Any volunteers to take these possibilities
forward?
Pls contact me
[snip] hello FN...;)
For Evangelising abt gnu-linx and Free Softwarein general just givve me a buzz nd i'll be more than keen to take up a workshop covering a whole range of Technical - Educational - Business - Management issues related to Free Software / Gnu-linux.
I would only ask for the concerned group to pay for me travel & lodging-boarding expenses.
Trevor
off-list. Thanks, FN
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Frederick Noronha wrote:
- Holding a few demos of various installs. Andrew asked: "Please let us know when you'll will demo an install." He underlined the need for handholding for new users to get past the partitioning stage.
ok, this is what I tried the last time I had to (and failed because of a faulty CD). I asked the audience how many had never used a computer before, or who had the least experience, and then asked that guy to come forward and install linux on the system.
I asked him to go ahead with what he thought was right, and to ask me if he had doubts. We proceeded well, right past the partitioning stage - with only three partitions (/ /boot and swap). The install froze during unpacking the packages because the CD had become damaged from being used so often.
We used redhat 7.2
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