On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:21, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:03:58 -0400 > > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the > > supreme keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the > > pinultimate ruler of mankind... Has "asked" me to put Linux on his > > desktop computer... > > > > It seems he has become weary of maintaining/re-installed his beloved > > XP... > > > > Life is good. > > > > Cheers, Jerry > > > > P.S. the next to be converted beneath my humble roof is my wife... Stay > > tuned. > > There must be something in the air. My 10 year old son Miles and I have > an ongoing friendly banter about the relative merits of windows and > linux. He has windows software at school and games to play after all. > > Anyway last night he was reading a section in the latest APC magazine > about the latest innovations in linux desktops, and comparing linux to > vista. He suddenly asked if he could obtain SuSE 10.1. I said "I think > its on the cover DVD". He said "Can I install it then?".
Nice! Maybe there's hope for the X-generation anyways... XBOX-Generation... Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
