[Fsf-friends] SLYNUX - Gaining Cheap Popularity

[Sarath Lakshman]

Hello sir,

I'm extremely sorry. I was stopped every works with
SLYNUX last month. And was concentrating in my
studies. 
But I just made the SLYNUX download avaliable. I
didn't expect any responds about that. But more than
1300 people downloaded SLYNUX and got many
appreciative comments. 

>From there I came back with SLYNUX. From these
insipiring e-mails I got, Many people suggested that
SLYNUX need a community forum and such things. So I
tried and created some stuffs - Forum. Many people
joined there..

Actually I'm not going to work with next SLYNUX
versions. I have only one idea behind this community -
If anyone wants to do some developments with SLYNUX,
help them. That's all.

SLYNUX was a Small project of me. I created that. Now
I 'm concentrating in studies and not with SLYNUX
Community. SLYNUX Community forum is just a platform
where people can discuss anything about slynux or do
any works...

One day, kairali came to my house with any
notification and took that story. I also told them
that I have never developed and operating system. I
developed a modified version of knoppix distro. But
the problem is most of the reporters don't know about
Operating systems and Computers stuffs.

I will join  savannah or other good projects later.
But this is not the time for that. This is the time to
concentrate on education. I'm leaving SLYNUX.

Thanking You


--- "Dileep M. Kumar" <dileep@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello GNUHeads,
> 
> I just saw a program (samakalikam) in Kairali TV.
> They were showing
> Sharat Lakshman and his newly developed OS "SLYNUX".
> I hope you all also
> read this mail.. Sharat.
> 
> We had lot of discussions on this topic some months
> back. At last Sharat
> himself told us that he just remastered knoppix
>
(http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-January/002756.html).
> But right from the news in Hindu, he claims that he
> build an OS based on
> linux and it is user-friendly like Windows. This is
> making false
> impression in majority of public (who are non-IT
> people).
> 
> In TV program he was telling that he renamed xmms to
> linamp and gaim to
> slynux messenger so that people who come from
> windows world understand
> easily. Does these products allow to change their
> name like this. Also
> names like My computer, My documents are trademark
> of Microsoft, IAC. He
> uses these terms to make SLYNUX mimic like windows.
> These are trademark
> infringement. 
> His new site www.slynux.co.nr has proofs
> (screenshots) to support this.
> 
> He now invite the community to join the slynux
> development. This can put
> others also in danger. 
> 
> What is your goal, sharat ? If you want to advocate
> the advantage of FS,
> this is not a good way, IMO. Hackers from different
> part of the world
> work hard to achieve this goal, join them. See
> distros like Mandrake,
> Fedora, Ubuntu ... 
> 
> Just renaming the efforts of those hackers and
> gaining cheap popularity
> is bad. May be you are too young to understand this.
> Atleast your
> parents (or the people who support you) should
> understand this. You are
> really insulting the hackers who build knoppix and
> other GNU tools
> bundled with it. 
> 
> If you are a real hacker, join with savannah or
> similar group of
> hackers. 
> 
> Regards
> --
>
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