Maybe being around a lot of people involved in computer science
gives you a different perspective than mine. Most of the people
that I come into contact with have never heard of unix and if I
speak of Linux often the first thing I hear is oh is that the same
company that makes heating and air conditioning equipment ?
In my experience it is not as complex as telling people it is not
like unix anymore but explaining the difference between a operating
system and a program and explaining that not all computers use
windoze. If I start to talk about a GUI they think I am talking
about how my hands got the last tine I robbed the bees (GOOEY),
sticky, covered with honey. LOL
Wow it's almost like we live in different worlds but I suppose
that in some regards we do.
Marc
KM5KW
On Thursday 29 May 2003 09:01 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote:
> I my finishing my degree in computer science in the UK and have
> finished writing my dissertation on Intrusion Detection Systems
> which I developed on Linux with open source software. My uni is
> all Mircosoft pruely because it is what the students have learn
> before they have come to uni and by only treaching them about
> Linux and open source will we be about to give people the option
> of using a different O/S. My point is we need to teach people
> about Linux and the fact that it is not like Unix any more and
> has a GUI that this up to Windows and is easyer the windows to
> install.
>
> my 2 cents that all.
>
> Benjamin
>
> On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:41 am, MARTIN HENDRIK RAD wrote:
> > Long ramble:
> >
> > The migration from Windows to another operating system can be
> > very bewildering for someone who does not have a computer
> > background - like myself. My very first experience with a
> > computer was the Sinclair ZX80 (or something), which plugged
> > into a normal TV set, and the apps were either loaded from a
> > cassette, or typed in line by line (in Basic). After that, some
> > years passed before I encountered a MSDOS machine, where I
> > learned only a handful of commands. The next encounter with
> > computers was at work in the early 90's, using a HP mainframe
> > with some kind of a text-based operating system (no idea what
> > that was, it still does not resemble anything I've seen). That
> > was replaced with pc's with Windows 3.1, a heck of an
> > improvement. At this time, all I knew was that Win 3.1 was a
> > graphical front-end for MSDOS (because you had to log out of
> > Win into DOS). By the time we moved to Win 95, I still did not
> > know what an operating system was. Even when I heard about
> > Linux (in 1998), I did not understand what it was because I did
> > not know what an operating system was. My own perseverance to
> > try and find out just WHAT Linux was, eventually taught me a
> > lot more about computers.
> >
> > But I understand that most people who casually use computers
> > for email and writing docs, simply don't understand anything
> > about operating systems, apps, file systems and the like. If
> > presented with something like KDE, they think it's Windows, but
> > "broken". When you explain its Linux they're looking at, they
> > want to know "but what does it do?". I had a friend who
> > professed to know nothing about computers, so I showed him what
> > Linux looked like. And then he said: "oh, but it's Unix!" and
> > he could use it faultlessly in the console-mode. It turns out
> > he did a course in Unix an university, but had never worked on
> > Windows! And so it goes on. I sometimes think it would be
> > impossible to break the stranglehold Microsoft has on the
> > desktop market.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hendrik Martin
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: walt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: 28 May 2003 21:10
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Help!!!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe
> > > Hill Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:44 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Just don't use KDE!
> > >
> > > ROFL, just kidding...
> > > --
> > >
> > > I know you are just kidding about KDE lol but if we want to
> > > get windows users to try linux, KDE is the closest looking
> > > thing to use. I do think they
> > > should have a serial number though..maybe twice as long as a
> > > winxp one..
> > >
> > > Walt
> > >
> > >
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