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| ratikanta rath 2005-05-29, 5:53 pm |
| Note- I began liking debian after i heard of it.
Please help this poor student by mailing me the CDs if
you have
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Ratikanta Rath from Angul(Orissa). I am a below
middle-class(above poverty) boy living in a village of
Jarasigha, near Angul town.
Two months ago, I heard of linux and I became
interested in it after I heard of it from my friend.
He described its features in a manner which made me to
lay awake whole night. I have a very low-end computer
with 5GB hard disk and 122MB RAM. It can boot from
CDROM. I am running WinXP Pro successfully on it. I
can not upgrade my PC due to money problems.
My friend gave me a live CD and i liked it. It was
BhavyaOS from November 2003 issue of LFY(I do not even
have enough money to buy magazines). I now wanted a
user friendly, stable and fast Linux. So I wanted a
good, user friendly, stable linux OS which can work
smoothly on my machine without crashing like WinXP
Pro.
But I could not find a good, stable distribution
having very good GUI for a begginner which could run
on 122.8MB of RAM.
I don't have money either for buying. Here there is no
body to help and I don't know of any linux user who
can help other than my friend who can not help. I
don't have internet access. Please help this poor
student who wants to learn linux by mailing me some
good linux distribution CDs which can run on 122.8
RAM. I am writing this email from an internet cafe
from my friends email adress for requesting some
well-known kind persons for mailing me some CDs as I
can't buy them and they are sold in Angul very costly
(Rs 500 per distro). If you can understand my
situation please mail me some old distros lying in
your house.
I am soory if i caused any trouble to you.
My address:
Ratikanta Rath
At/PO: Jarasingha
Dist.: Angul
Orissa, India
Postal Code: 759143
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| Jaldhar H. Vyas 2005-05-29, 5:54 pm |
| On Sun, 29 May 2005, ratikanta rath wrote:
> Note- I began liking debian after i heard of it.
> Please help this poor student by mailing me the CDs if
> you have
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How far away are you from Bhubaneswar? There is a Linux User Group there
which can possibly assist you with CDs and other Linux help. Their
website can be found at http://ilug-bbsr.sourceforge.net/
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| Kevin Mark 2005-05-29, 5:54 pm |
| On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 02:12:27PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Sun, 29 May 2005, ratikanta rath wrote:
>
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> How far away are you from Bhubaneswar? There is a Linux User Group there
> which can possibly assist you with CDs and other Linux help. Their
> website can be found at http://ilug-bbsr.sourceforge.net/
Hi Ratikanta and Jaldhar,
with all the talk of outsourcing to India and the rise of the technology
sector in India, there has to be quite a few linux group in India as
Jaldhar seems to sugest. I used the google search engine and found lists
for groups in Goa, Mumbia, Dehli, and other places.
Here are a few websites to look at:
http://www.linux-delhi.org
Since I am not familiar with all the languages in India, this may be
useful. "Bengali Linux" is a Gnu/Linux which supports Bengali. It is at:
http://www.bengalinux.org
look at the sites and if they are not in your area, contact someone of
these sites by email and ask them if they know of a group closer to you!
Linux People are very friendly and are willing to help obtain a CD. Just
ask!
if all else fails, you may want to ask the Ubuntu people to mail
you an Ubuntu CD as they mail their CD for free. Try:
http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/
Ubuntu is very similar to Debian since it uses the Debian package format
and some of the people in Ubuntu are Debian developers.
Cheers,
Kev
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| Guillermo Gutierrez Herrera 2005-05-30, 7:53 am |
| U can get like-debian CDs at http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/ at not cost
El dom, 29-05-2005 a las 15:41 +0100, ratikanta rath escribió:
> Note- I began liking debian after i heard of it.
> Please help this poor student by mailing me the CDs if
> you have
> [...]
>
> My address:
> Ratikanta Rath
> At/PO: Jarasingha
> Dist.: Angul
> Orissa, India
> Postal Code: 759143
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