2010/8/28 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) raju@linux-delhi.org
On Saturday 28 Aug 2010, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
You can post an installation and experience report on both systems. Please have a look at my signature text too.
See, how many times I need to remind you all that schoolos is one stop solution of schools where there is no Internet or tend to zero Internet present. It is biggest fault in the design in Linux Distro that NORMAL HUMAN BEING can not copy/install VLC media player from linux system to another. HE has to run Crappy yum command which sucks my life all the time even at good speed internet.
I am not into debate mood and not proving that SchoolOS is best, but it has a very good scope in biggest untouched field in education system. And one day it will be highly used Linux Distro in India.
If you're promoting a product, the least you can do is give the objective features of the product and provide some (again objective) reasons why someone should use that product. "Install it and see" is hardly a way to get people to use the OS.
I'd expect to see at least the following:
- Feature list
It contains Ebooks,
- Benefit list
2GB is specially designed for School. Next version will be 4.2 GB bigger and will contain lots of self explaining videos along with selected pages of offline wikipedia.
- Comparison with other similar products
Other product do not comes with VLC , and many other stuff. We have done all sort of customization which a user needs.
- Special features
right click scripts. For example, just select pdf from nautilus and right click and click on join similarly gettting ip, external ip, download here , pdfinto, pdfjoin, imageconversion script are there at right click. This list is very long. I listed a long list of operation for which a user may need command line , I converted then into GUI applicatoins
- List of disadvantages, if any
NO.
- Support commitment
See are trying into this area. Support of Linux distro is one required in India. SchoolOS will be covered. automatically.
Which brings me to the other, critical issue: what is the commitment on the future of this OS? How large is the organisation behind it? Is there a defined road map?
Please don't view this as criticism or negativity, Narendra. In the real world, these are questions that anyone will ask before committing themselves to a relatively unknown product, and you must be prepared to answer them. Hell, these are the easy ones! Go to anyone with some experience in managing IT and see the sort of questions you face!
Raj, Point is not that I do not want to answer these queries but why everytime. Many of these things have been discussed long back when we announced it. Whenever I try to make any announcement , someone jump with the statement like "why schoolos" , I totally discard them.
We did 6 episodes each 1 hour [2 month] on national TV on FOSS and educational software. This was the first of its own kind of achievement. This was possible only because SchoolOS.
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