On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:56:56 -0500
Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was inspired to comment:
> Here's another great article by dep.
>
> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3751/1/
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I agree, it's a very well done article. No surprise there!
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>
> I've helped 2 of my friends install Caldera eD2.4. One is using it on a
> sporadic basis, just testing the waters, not doing anything critical
> yet.
> He's hooked on Shisen-Sho though. And the other claims he doesn't have
> the
> time to learn it. Another of my friends wants to try a dual-boot on his
> machine when he has to format/re-install windows next time. Most of the
> people that I know know that I run a Linux distro. I've had them ask
> plenty
> of questions about it. I've tried to answer them to the best of my
> ability.
> I've only been running eD2.4 since April 2000 and I've seen Linux grow
> by
> leaps and bounds. I tell most people that if Linux doesn't do what you
> want
> now, wait 6 months and it probably will(unless you are a programmer and
> want
> to code it yourself).
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A few months ago, my father-in-law (aged 76) purchased his first computer.
He had never really used one and thus was/is a TOTAL newbie. He and my
sister-in-law got together and decided to buy from Dell. Not bad, but I
cautioned tham to refuse ME (get 98 instead), refuse the MSN deal, and
insist on a real modem. Well they followed non of these suggestions, and
now I'm stuck helping him with his worthless OS and even more hideous ISP
(MSN.com). The more I think about it though, the more I wish I had just
installed a linux distro on the damn thing and been done with it. He was
starting from *0* knowledge anyway. why not teach him linux (purely as a
user at first - I would have retained root privileges for myself, until he
was able to assume that responsibility). From a pure user perspective,
IMHO opinion, linux is at least as easy (perhaps easier) to learn as
windoze. And without the M$ _pre-conditoining_ I believe it's probably
also easier for the user to learn how the system actually operates.
My bride (or over 20 years ;o) ) never really used a computer until she
took a position as a teachers' assistant at a local elementary school.
She learned to e-mail on their imacs and execute some other simple
computer tasks. At home she now uses linux to write things, browse the
web and manage her e-mail. One day, my older son was trying to show her
how to do such things in win98. Ultimately she just became exasperated
and declared, "Get me out of here and boot linux please. I just don't get
windows!!" I took her to dinner <hehehe>
Mike
--
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it
helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons,
but at the very least you need a beer."
- Frank Zappa
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