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Subject:	Ideas on a Linux installation and, or setup roadshow
Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:14:38 +0530
From:	Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Organization:	Anu'z Linux@HOME
Newsgroups:	comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Followup-To:	comp.os.linux.misc

Hi friends,

We are considering organizing a free Linux installation and, or setup
roadshow, first in the city beautiful Chandigarh itself and then various
other industrial cities near and, or around.

We think, that a single click installation with help the MintLinux 5.0
Elyssa (based on Debian/Ubuntu) can be a good start along with a remote
booting and single click installation of Linux with help of an updated
Knoppix Terminal Server running from an installed machine. We regard,
acknowledge and appreciate efforts of all other distributions, but we
want to showcase only the easier and most up-to-date ones in our
presentation and show.

Hence, your valuable ideas and, or considerable points are welcome in
the following categories.

1) Common for all, general end-users, assemblers, integrators and, or
private support people:

   i) Time taken in installing, booting, updating and, or dist-upgrading
and machine.

  ii) Built-in hardware detection, inclusion of popular and third party
drivers i.e. mostly everything works out-of-the-box.

 iii) Most needful packages like versatile OpenOffice.org, secure
browser Firefox, mail, news and feed reader Thunderbird, GIMP for image
and, or photo editing, best multimedia player MPlayer and, or versatile
instant messengers Pidgin and, or Kopete are already included and
installed in one go; no time consuming multiple restarts;)

  iv) No data loss, wonderful partition manager and, or editor takes
care of moving, shrinking, expanding and, or formatting of disk drives.

  v) Accessibility of any machine from any machine with the help of
secure shell and, or vanilla X-Window desktops or via SSL.

2) Specific for IT students, educators and, or developers:

   i) The Free/Libre and Open Source movement and its benefits.

  ii) Almost everything a developer needs is available and, or included.

 iii) Freely available Course Management System (CMS) packages.


3) Specific for common office and, or business users:

   i) The security and, or firewall.

  ii) The built-in mail, ftp, web and, or windows sharing services.

 iii) Freely available Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer
Relationship Management (CRM), Content Management (CMS) and, or other
such packages.

4) Specific for photographers, video makers and, or audio editors:

   i) Freely available photo, video and, or audio editing tools.


5) Specific for music composers, trainers and, or directors:

   i) Freely available composition, publishing and, or other tools.

6) Specific of schools, colleges, institutions and, or the management
thereof:

   i) Freely available Course Management Systems, School Management
Systems and, or other such tools.


This can be long list, but we want to discus only mature and, or most
complete packages or projects; no doubt, your valuable ideas shall
definitely be appreciated.

Please let us know, what we are missing and, or what is we must add in
our said Linux installation and, or setup roadshow.

Thanks,
Regards,

-- 
Dr Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman          Registered Linux User: #229709
Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe)        Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192
Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India         Gentoo, Fedora, Debian/FreeBSD/XP
Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/  Visit: http://counter.li.org/

-- Dr Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709
Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192
Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Gentoo, Fedora, Debian/FreeBSD/XP
Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/