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?". Knowing that there was an unused 35G partition on the hard drive awaiting a linux install I said "go for it". So I looked over his shoulder and made sure he didn't junk the windows partition. I advised him on the choice between kde and gnome, and assured that the other would still be available to install later. Other than that he did the whole thing. By the time he went to bed it was running and he'd been on the net using firefox and checked that runescape (online java game) worked. By the time I got up this morning he was setting up his RSS feeds in kontact and configuring various other bits. Pretty good I thought. Not sure whether it says something about Miles, or about SuSE's ease of installation (probably both). He has used linux before, and is pretty computer literate (gaining a "High Distinction" in an international exam, batting against kids 2 years older), but neither those exams nor school do much to prepare you for installing a different OS. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
