People have a myth in mind that Linux is still command line. So the event started off with the Vista-Ubuntu Compiz video. Shubhendra first showed them the effects of Vista and the whole crowd was quite astonished that such effects were really possible? We asked them how much of RAM you require for them? Hardware requirements? Answers were- “Minimum 1GB RAM”, “2GB RAM for proper aero effects”, “Dedicated Graphics card” and many more. Next we showed them the Beryl-CompizFusion effects on Ubuntu. Now people didnt know to say next. We again asked for hardware requirements. This time we got replies like “1GB RAM”,”512MB RAM”, “Graphics Card”. No buddies! It runs on 512MB of RAM without even a Graphics Card. Next I showed them the same effects on my laptop to prove that they were not false. The greatest myth regarding Linux was cleared.

Next was my turn. I know the section was a bit boring since I had to speak on the Open Source and Free Software philosphy. This was the arena where we all three tried hard to explain the people what it really is !! Next I told them the history of Linux in the hope that it would turn out to be interesting but it proved to be more disastrous. It became too technical. Well, leave it.

The last and most important part was the questionnaire round. People kept asking the questions like they had sessionals the next day. This was the place where as first year guy “Ankur Shrivastava aka OS” jumped in. Till now he had been controlling our presentation slides. Now we all four tried our best to quench their thirst of knowledge. Some people did ask foolish questions, but we do know the importance of patience.

Before concluding, we asked those people to stay back who really wanted to get involved in this work. We would be building website relating to LUG,Manipal. We plan to have blog,CMS, Wiki and forums on the site for the betterment of general public. To out expectations more than 30 students stayed back to register themselves. All of them have been assigned the work and now I hope on the first Saturday of next semester we can hold an install fest for letting people work on this hot-hot thing