Reply to Mr. Nikhil's Hyderabad team building easy to use operating system

[narasimharao <narsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Indian Linux user,

We are writing this in great pain and agony for the kind of  response we get 
from some of the users. It is really painful and discouraging.
Our only sin is that we took this objective of making a "desktop oriented" 
Linux version and to sweeten the taste of "bitterness" in it, as percieved by 
normal (win) user.  By that we thought that Linux will have vaster reach than 
merely in the laps of  Univ students, technicians and sytem professionals.  
Our sin is to think and act in direction of making it "softer" and friendlier 
for a normal user.  We worked to reduce pains at the time of installation and 
added more visual appeal. We tried writing help in language understandable to 
a normal user . Centralized application launchers. worked hard to reduce the 
pain of mounting and unmounting, designed a simpler support sytem, tried 
porting best features of diff distros to reduce pains of users.
 
This way we thought we would make our contribution to amazing and helping 
world of Opensource. The complete excercise began to make it available for 
everyone. 
But like another opensource project we had very limited resources and we 
could not afford to pay much attention to "technically" upgrading our 
website, which was created by our sponsorers much before we started working 
for the project. Technically upgrading it meant for us, giving one or two 
programmers from our limited number exclusively for this, working on techs 
like PHP, Apache and Mysql. We needed them for higher priority tasks then.
But by grace of God and help from os community we are almost through with a 
decent website, less on content more on functionality using os techs (will be 
made available soon).  
We are not sure how our work would be taken by everyone but we know one thing 
that we have given countless sleepless nights, long deserted seasons (no 
dates) , missed lunches, dinners and all that we could have possibly given.
These  efforts by no means a Heresy to "Technically savvy" linux users who 
think knowledge also gives them authority to use such abusive words for 
someone.. perticularly  those whom efforts they have not seen or evaluated by 
any means. This does not antagonize us but demonstrates Mr. Nikhil's 
convoluted thinking of being "Mr Coool" and "as I like it" kind of guy.
  But it definitely saddens us as to how some members of our user groups 
react to a cause which has no malice in itself

Hurt

We at Aryan





> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Re: [LIG] [ilug-goa] LINK: Hyderabad team building easy to use
> operating system
> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:26:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Nick Hill <nikhilwiz@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> These guys are a big joke. When they first put up
> shop, their website was taking about building a distro
> on the 2.3 kernel. I dont even want to delve into the
> validity and the nonsense value of that statement.
>
> I've mailed them several times indicating that they
> are on the wrong way, and will end up in a soup if
> they stick to those philosophies, and even offered
> help from ILUG-HYD. All they did was show us a deaf
> ear. I dont even want to go to their website to see if
> anything's changed at all. for me, they're a bunch of
> scum bags.
>
> I dunno why most of the times people with a lot of
> shit up their sleeve end up seeming important. bleh.
>
> Nikhil.
>
> --- FREDERICK NORONHA <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hyderabad team building easy to use operating system
> > Called Aryan Linux (www.aryanlinux.com), the firm
> > says its goal is nearly
> > accomplished -- to create a true end-to-end flavor
> > of Linux meant specially
> > for the desktop user, or the millions of
> > non-technical end-users of computers.
>
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