Today, I got some time to play with IT@School GNU/Linux which is distributed all schools in kerala as a part of IT@School. It was Gnome desktop and was on debian. The installation has gone fine. It seemed to be simple and fast comparing to other distros.
But.. I’m not satisfied with its desktop..It’s gnome. I’m a KDE lover. The gnome desktop theme and eye candy stuffs are poor. Its hardware detection also seemed to be poor. It didn’t autodetect my sound card. I prefer KDE for newbies and students. Because, most people are familier with M$ Windows, they are more fed up with graphics, look and feel stuff. in order to attract them we need KDE. KDE is more fascinating and vast than gnome. Moreover KDE is now a freesoftware. I think students won’t migrate to GNU/Linux being attracted by this GNU/Linux. It’s bad at the level of attracting students to GNU system. Ubuntu is efficient among gnome desktop distros. I liked it much.
The best way to bring students to GNU and its ideas is making them aware of the real GNu philosophy. For what GNU stand for? Why do we follow free software? Also about infinite freedom we get from it. We must be able to show students that its easier to use GNU/Linux and its possibilities and extra power with respect to M$ Win. We must be able to make them well understand the power of Linux community. (more…)
