Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-09 Thread Grant Parnell
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Taryn East wrote: out of curiosity - is there anyting specific to support younger people? Mainly becuase my BF's son (16) is getting interested in this stuff and was wondering where a good place to point him would be. I was thinking of dragging him along to SLUGlets to

[SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Taryn East
out of curiosity - is there anyting specific to support younger people? Mainly becuase my BF's son (16) is getting interested in this stuff and was wondering where a good place to point him would be. I was thinking of dragging him along to SLUGlets to start with but was wondering if there's

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Steven Chang-Lin Yu
Taryn East wrote: out of curiosity - is there anyting specific to support younger people? Mainly becuase my BF's son (16) is getting interested in this stuff and was wondering where a good place to point him would be. I was thinking of dragging him along to SLUGlets to start with but was wondering

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:18:48 +1100, Taryn East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: out of curiosity - is there anyting specific to support younger people? Mainly becuase my BF's son (16) is getting interested in this stuff and was wondering where a good place to point him would be. I was thinking of

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Kevin Saenz
This stuff Do you mean computers and linux? Like windows, linux has a hardware compatibility list. Do you know what he wants to do with Linux? The way I started out was playing with DEC unix at uni way back when win3.0 was out, I hated using windows since the release of win95, and found Linux

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:39:52 +1100, Kevin Saenz uttered The other thing is that you could install a program called vmware if feel nervous about installing linux on your computer. Or use one of the LiveCD's such as Knoppix or Ubuntu ... Cheers, -- Steve

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:39:52 +1100, Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This stuff Do you mean computers and linux? Like windows, linux has a hardware compatibility list. Do you know what he wants to do with Linux? The way I started out was playing with DEC unix at uni way back when win3.0

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Taryn East
damn.. must remember... shift-L to reply! * Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:18:48 +1100, Taryn East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give them a crash n burn machine, and then a few distros to play with. Direct them to the howto LDP stuff. Best way to learn is to

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread Taryn East
* Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: This stuff Do you mean computers and linux? Like windows, linux has a hardware compatibility list. Do you know what he wants to do with Linux? The way I started out was playing with DEC unix at uni way back when win3.0 was out, I hated using

Re: [SLUG] youth and linux?

2005-03-08 Thread David Gillies
I don't think that anyone suggested it, but what's wrong with coming along to SLUG meetings? The times I've been it definitely hasn't been an adults only kind of meeting. Definitely some young folk around. I don't know about your BF's son, but when I was 16 I got waaay more mileage out of