Few days back Shubendhu laughed when I said Foss is the future. But dude you have laughed previously and have being proved wrong before. Remember I said if there could be a different roads for the buses and cars. And you said that is weired. But today something like that is known as BRT. Then I said that if drivers could see the roads and traffics even before they hit the roads. You said that this is more of a Science fiction than a reality. But today we use it as GPS. But thank you dude cos if this string continues then surely Foss is the future.
Today when the latest version of Ubuntu comes out of the shelfs it promises to take this journey one step further. LTS 10.04 promises be not just to give windows a run for its money but I hope that it further makes the Linux computing easier. Once which was known be to only for the computer geeks is now used even by guys like me who hardly know the “C” of computer. I still remember days when my cousin who was a software engineer student at that time. Used to type codes after codes and get fantastic stuffs from that. Today I don't have to type boring codes to get the same results. Ubuntu and Linux's other versions like Suse or Mandriva have evolved and went on to be user friendly. When I bought my PC way back in 2007, it came with Suse Linux 9.2. It was really good to use but I could not play song and movies. But as the price of Internet fall in India and also in other developing countries Linux which overwhelmingly depends on the Internet of plug-ins and updates will catch on with the youth and old alike. Unlike windows the best thing in Linux is that it does not suffers from the problem of viruses. So in does needs any anti-virus software and system does not slows down. Being an environmentalist I have always faced a challenge when I used to go somewhere for few minutes while computer was running. To shut it down. But as usual windows took ages to start up. But Linux take 10 to 20 seconds only to startup. And I used to hate computing with windows as it was slow with Linux I enjoy working on computer. Today I want to buy Laptop free of any kind of stuff related to Microsoft. It is because Microsoft is full of viruses and it slows the system tremendously. On the other hand Linux does not knows what is virus and runs smoothly all time. Most of the net-books are also coming with Linux. So that it reduces price and increases performance. Even in smart phone market Android is second only to Apple's I-phone Aps store.
Even the Indian Government have started to go from Windows to Linux. Even this is the second big consumer of our country's foreign reserve after oil. Even the big three political which are always at loggerheads with each other are united here. Therefore I totally believe the future of computing is FOSS. Because it is free(dom) and open.
Today when the latest version of Ubuntu comes out of the shelfs it promises to take this journey one step further. LTS 10.04 promises be not just to give windows a run for its money but I hope that it further makes the Linux computing easier. Once which was known be to only for the computer geeks is now used even by guys like me who hardly know the “C” of computer. I still remember days when my cousin who was a software engineer student at that time. Used to type codes after codes and get fantastic stuffs from that. Today I don't have to type boring codes to get the same results. Ubuntu and Linux's other versions like Suse or Mandriva have evolved and went on to be user friendly. When I bought my PC way back in 2007, it came with Suse Linux 9.2. It was really good to use but I could not play song and movies. But as the price of Internet fall in India and also in other developing countries Linux which overwhelmingly depends on the Internet of plug-ins and updates will catch on with the youth and old alike. Unlike windows the best thing in Linux is that it does not suffers from the problem of viruses. So in does needs any anti-virus software and system does not slows down. Being an environmentalist I have always faced a challenge when I used to go somewhere for few minutes while computer was running. To shut it down. But as usual windows took ages to start up. But Linux take 10 to 20 seconds only to startup. And I used to hate computing with windows as it was slow with Linux I enjoy working on computer. Today I want to buy Laptop free of any kind of stuff related to Microsoft. It is because Microsoft is full of viruses and it slows the system tremendously. On the other hand Linux does not knows what is virus and runs smoothly all time. Most of the net-books are also coming with Linux. So that it reduces price and increases performance. Even in smart phone market Android is second only to Apple's I-phone Aps store.
Even the Indian Government have started to go from Windows to Linux. Even this is the second big consumer of our country's foreign reserve after oil. Even the big three political which are always at loggerheads with each other are united here. Therefore I totally believe the future of computing is FOSS. Because it is free(dom) and open.
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