On Wednesday 24 January 2007 8:17 pm, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > As linux is total unusuable by the average grammar- and highschool kid, > windows is the only alternative to them.
Fortunately someone forgot to tell the ones in Australia about that! Some quotes from people I know: # My daughter turns seven this weekend. She started school last year. She is # using my FreeBSD/Gnome2 driven laptop. # My 13yo nephew decided to try out Linux on his Mac a couple of months ago, # so I downloaded him a Ubuntu disc and send him home with it with the promise # that next time I'm over there I'll help him install. [...] # The next time I visit he's not only partitioned his HD and installed Ubunutu # he's gone to a Ubunutu forum and found and followed instructions to # <CRTL>-<ALT> to a console and edit xorg.conf (using vi!) to overcome a DRI # incompatability with his old Mac which left him with a blank screen on # bootup. # My daughter (now 13) grew up on a diet of OS9/OSX, Windows and Linux. # # Now she has Ubuntu on her blueberry iMac as Mac OSX was a bit slow and I # was not going to pay for Mac programs. (she won the iMac) and my favourite: # Well actually, my son with using Linux to surf the web, and play some # games from when he was 2. # # This was a stock install of Debian with the KDE Desktop. I just put the # icons on the desktop, and had it auto login for him. (he had some # trouble with a user name and a secure password). If we expect children of that age to learn multiple languages (something I've never managed to do, I can't even speak my own native tongue of Welsh) then why should they find different computer systems any more difficult ? cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/ Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
