Date : 29/07/09 *Location : Krishna Arts and Science College , Kanchipuram .* Hi to all, * Today afternoon 12.30 pm* *Raj kumar, Dasthageer , Vishnu and I ( Arulalan ) were went to Krishna Arts & sceince College , Kanchipuram to give an intro about FOSS and GNU/Linux as Guest Lecture*. We brought our two laptops . They provided Lcd Projector. Nearly 1 pm we arranged Lcd and laptop. Above 80 (eighty) Students were came to there lab. They are first and second year BCA Students. Finally we started to talk about History of Gnu/Linux qt 1.20 pm. we talked with students in Tamil itself . Link : http://www.slideshare.net/arulalan/foss-history-1479471 Initially I started to talk about Operating System, Proprietary Softwares, and FOSS , etc., Students too interacted with us , nicely ! And we showed Ubuntu OS and its 3D Desktop animations and effects to them. The main thing is , they didn’t heard about Linux. This is first time , they were seen Linux GUI . And all of them are wonder by seeing the GUI of Linux. And again using PDF , we talked discussed with those students about why we need Open Source. Link : http://www.slideshare.net/kanchilug/open-source-intro-1786723 Now Dastha , Raj and Vishnu were gave speech to them . Raj made few comedies about Proprietary software. Students are enjoyed ! ( This is first time experience to all of us , especially to those 3 guys ! ) and I explained many thing about Viruses and Security and Open Source Languages , & Jobs . and using PDF we showed them , ” How to install ubuntu as dual boot ” . we can not show them , ubuntu Live cd because of insufficient time . Link : http://www.slideshare.net/kanchilug/how-to-install-ubuntu-as-dual so upto 3.15 pm we were took an introduction session about Gnu/Linuix to those students… Thanks to those students and staff to support to us to make this talk as memorable one ! ! ! Thanks to Vishnu, because ( he studied his ug in that college ) he only makes this Guest Lecture . we hope, surely this guest lecture gave some basic idea about FOSS and Linux to those students . And finally we told them about our *Kanchi Linux User Group ( KLUG ) and its activities* ! here<http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/an-intro-about-linux-to-krishna-arts-science-college-students-as-guest-lecture/> அருளாளன் . த -- நன்றி , அருளாளன் . த Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks ! http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Experiments In Linux are here http://tuxworld.wordpress.com தக்கன தழைக்கும் !