Hello from Thaddeus - INDIA

**tsf** · 10-16-2005

hello friends,

i'm thaddeus fernandes from India. I have recently started using suse linux
and it's really interesting to work on linux. I have finished a Master's
degree in Physics with electronics and at present i'm doing MBA degree.

I started using linux this month itself after my professor motivated me to use
linux. Although many of the windows executables don't run on linux & that's
the sad part of it. the GUI that suse provides is excellent.

I'm not an expert to linux and i've just started learning some of the command
line. Overall it's not that hard as I had heard of. In my city there are a
handful of users and mostly all of them use windows & the best part is all of
them are pirated versions. Even colleges, schools & big institutions use
pirated versions & no one comes to monitor or catch those using pirated
versions. Is the situation same in the US? Plz do give me some feedback on
this matter. Here it's very easy to get any version of windows copied onto a
cd & distribute it further. I don't know about US.

Could anyone plz give me some details of the software market there.

Linux has proved to be a strong rival to windows & it will overbeat it very
soon.

I hope to learn linux as fast as possible and contribute in some way or the
other to spread the linux word all over in my city.

That's all folks.
Bye & do reply

**a thing** · 10-16-2005

People in the US buy pieces of crap preloded with real Windows from Dell and rarely some other companies. It's even rarer to find someone using something that isn't Windows. When it isn't Windows it's probably Apple. I know one other geek that uses GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.

**jnev** · 10-16-2005

why are you giving out your address (i assume that's what it is) and your phone number on the internet?

**genesus** · 10-16-2005

Originally Posted by jnev

why are you giving out your address (i assume that's what it is) and your phone number on the internet?

why not?

**smolloy** · 10-16-2005

Originally Posted by genesus

Originally Posted by jnev

why are you giving out your address (i assume that's what it is) and your phone number on the internet?

why not?

Doesn't seem like a good idea. I dunno why, but it just doesn't sound smart to broadcast your address, or your phone number (especially your phone number cos of prank calls) on a public forum.

**Vergil83** · 10-17-2005

Yes, but as a grad student it is already available (most likely) on the school's site.

Also, long distance prank calls seem rather silly (and costly

)

**smolloy** · 10-17-2005

Originally Posted by Vergil83

Also, long distance prank calls seem rather silly (and costly

)

You gotta love Skype.....

**tsf** · 10-17-2005

hell all,

thanks for replying me. I don't know why are you people so reluctant to display your address & phone nos. In india it's no big deal to disclose add or phone nos. I'm not a big celebrity or a big minister that people might use my details in a wrong sense. In india this rarely happens.

So i just wrote my add & phone no just like that.

That's all folks.

Plz do tell me something about the piracy related issue that i discussed in my 1st posting.

regards,
thaddeus

**a12ctic** · 10-17-2005

hello, i really dont see a point in posting your adress?

**zba78** · 10-17-2005

Do you know how much it costs to call india?

thaddeus, do you watch a lot of warner bros cartoons? It's just that you always sign off 'That's all folks'

oh by the way, welcom to the forum

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