Try doing any chemistry experiment which results in a drastic color change. You can start with colorless reactants in separate beakers, and the mix them to produce a bright blue colored liquid(yeah Copper).
First of all, there is a committee for free desktop standards[freedesktop.org].
Secondly, all other distributions have no need for creating a unified desktop. Red Hat did it because it felt that it was its responsibility, as market leader, to provide something that offers new users that extra cushion. Distributions like Slack, Gentoo etc, on the other hand, don't command such a high market share, and therefore, do not feel the need to spend thousands of $$ developng a unified desktop. The user base of such distros(Slack etc) is already well accustomed to the idea of two separate DEs and a bunch of WMs. If these users want a unified desktop, they should go for Redhat. If RH users want the full freedom of choice between DEs and not something modified by RH, then they should go ahead and try out other distros like Mandrake, Suse etc. Linux is all about choice and every distro has something unique to offer. If distros start copying each other, then linux bubble will burst, just like the unix bubble did a few decades ago. Kudos to RH for trying to stand out from the pack.
Dude, you've been moving around the wrong circles. You'll find the good guys here [linux-india.org].
Dude, i am member of quite a few of those chapters. My point is that compared to the vastness of India and the number of engineering grads we produce, that number is paltry. Infact, my lug have been trying to arrange a seminar in diff colleges in a certain city. But these are few and far between and we have the same speakers to speak everytime....irrespective of the type of college.
Infact, lets analyze the counter stats.
Maharashtra has roughly 100 M people. It has at least 100 engineering colleges, due to the presence of Mumbai and Pune. Maharashtra also has about 500 people who *know* linux. Even if we assume that all 500 are gurus, we still have only 5 linux gurus per engg college which has like 500 students, or only 1 person per 100 engg students.Bear in mind that these stats are scewed by the presence of IIT Mumbai which extensively uses linux.Add to that, the number of commercial offices in Mumbai that use linux and employ linux known sys admins, and you will be left with very embarrasing ratio.
Actually, South India is one of the literate parts of India. Infact, in a state called Kerela, the literacy percentage is as high as ~95%. Secondly, English is not the second language for most Indians. The first two languages are always Hindi and their mother tongue. Eg, a *typical* resident of Gujarat will speak Hindi and Gujarati more fluently than he might speak English. Thus English could be called the third language for most people, but that does not mean its widely spoken(in the context of the entire population).
I completely agree with you. I hail from India. Almost all my friends back home in India are doing CS as a major and i am sorry to say that Linux/*NIX has hardly made any inroads. Infact, i will go one step further and say that computers themselves are not as widely used as they ought to be for obvious monetary reasons.At a college rated amongst the better engineering colleges of Mumbai(new name for Bombay), one of my friends, went through an entire semester of C programming without sitting at a computer. With such money crunches, colleges should consider Linux as a blessing at it cuts them a lot on licensing costs. However, most colleges in India dont have professors knowledgeable about *NIX to be able to conduct courses in that environment. It will be some time before Linux makes any significant inroads in India, but once it does, India does have the potential to become a very large linux user base.
From personal experienced, i have discovered that "Nobody messes with Sodium". I was once i chem lab, holding a jar containing Sodium with oil(cant remember why), and managed to drop the jar spilling the sodium all over the floor and some very small amount on my legs. Now i am left with a very bad scars on both my legs. So if anyone asks me to handle sodium again, i go Na !
The fact that Microsoft is considering providing security services for a fee, just shows that it knows that its OSs are not secure enough. But if they cant build security into the OS itself then is there any guarantee that they will be able to do it later on, for a separate fee? Judging from the number patches, they release, for other patches, i dont think that Microsoft is capable of providing these services for which it plans to charge.
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Try doing any chemistry experiment which results in a drastic color change. You can start with colorless reactants in separate beakers, and the mix them to produce a bright blue colored liquid(yeah Copper).
First of all, there is a committee for free desktop standards[freedesktop.org]. Secondly, all other distributions have no need for creating a unified desktop. Red Hat did it because it felt that it was its responsibility, as market leader, to provide something that offers new users that extra cushion. Distributions like Slack, Gentoo etc, on the other hand, don't command such a high market share, and therefore, do not feel the need to spend thousands of $$ developng a unified desktop. The user base of such distros(Slack etc) is already well accustomed to the idea of two separate DEs and a bunch of WMs. If these users want a unified desktop, they should go for Redhat. If RH users want the full freedom of choice between DEs and not something modified by RH, then they should go ahead and try out other distros like Mandrake, Suse etc. Linux is all about choice and every distro has something unique to offer. If distros start copying each other, then linux bubble will burst, just like the unix bubble did a few decades ago. Kudos to RH for trying to stand out from the pack.
Actually, South India is one of the literate parts of India. Infact, in a state called Kerela, the literacy percentage is as high as ~95%. Secondly, English is not the second language for most Indians. The first two languages are always Hindi and their mother tongue. Eg, a *typical* resident of Gujarat will speak Hindi and Gujarati more fluently than he might speak English. Thus English could be called the third language for most people, but that does not mean its widely spoken(in the context of the entire population).
I completely agree with you. I hail from India. Almost all my friends back home in India are doing CS as a major and i am sorry to say that Linux/*NIX has hardly made any inroads. Infact, i will go one step further and say that computers themselves are not as widely used as they ought to be for obvious monetary reasons.At a college rated amongst the better engineering colleges of Mumbai(new name for Bombay), one of my friends, went through an entire semester of C programming without sitting at a computer. With such money crunches, colleges should consider Linux as a blessing at it cuts them a lot on licensing costs. However, most colleges in India dont have professors knowledgeable about *NIX to be able to conduct courses in that environment. It will be some time before Linux makes any significant inroads in India, but once it does, India does have the potential to become a very large linux user base.
From personal experienced, i have discovered that "Nobody messes with Sodium". I was once i chem lab, holding a jar containing Sodium with oil(cant remember why), and managed to drop the jar spilling the sodium all over the floor and some very small amount on my legs. Now i am left with a very bad scars on both my legs. So if anyone asks me to handle sodium again, i go Na !
The fact that Microsoft is considering providing security services for a fee, just shows that it knows that its OSs are not secure enough. But if they cant build security into the OS itself then is there any guarantee that they will be able to do it later on, for a separate fee? Judging from the number patches, they release, for other patches, i dont think that Microsoft is capable of providing these services for which it plans to charge.