<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'> --- On Fri, 20/6/08, Kushal Das <kushaldas@gmail.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Kushal Das <kushaldas@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students. To: sanjay_ankur@yahoo.co.in Cc: fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com Date: Friday, 20 June, 2008, 10:56 AM <PRE>On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48 AM, ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > hi, > > try setting up fedora on an HP 6515b laptop.. the one that my colllege has > provided.. if youre lucky might work in the first try.. Some hardware will always failed , may be new, may be no open driver. We all gone through this kind of situations. > > What im saying is to help newbies to learn how to use the various aspects > before introducing them to development.. That is correct, but for that pointing to wine will be *very bad* idea. If we do so , then we are telling them to use proprietary software. Where we should guide them to use FOSS tools and applications. Btw, please cc to the list also as this is an ongoing discussion. Kushal -- http://fedoraproject.org http://kushaldas.in http://badvista.org</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table> <hr size=1></hr> Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. <a href="http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_2/*http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/">Get it now</a>