On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Don Raikes <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree wholeheartedly. My oldest son is in college (ready to graduate this > year), and last christmas break he converted his laptop to ubuntu. When my > youngest son had problems with vista on his brand-new laptop, he installed > ubuntu as a dual boot and was able to use it for everything except for > playing some online games he liked. > > So the kids do like linux once they get to know it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Antonio Olivares [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: OT: "Linux holds back the kids" > > > Dear all, > > This is somewhat OT, but in light of this, I have to disagree with that > teacher who made the claim. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/15/helios_linux_texas_teacher/ > > I am a math teacher at a high school in Texas and I have 10 machines running > Linux, 8 running Fedora 10, one running Fedora 8, and the other running > OpenSuse 11.0(just updated). My students at first did not seem to like the > Linux machines, but now they are at home with them and some of them asked me > for copies and I gladly gave them a Fedora 10 install DVD. I have been > running Linux at school since 2002/2003 and my students asked me what version > of "Windows" were my machines?. I told them it was Linux, one was Mandrake > 9, another was Red Hat 9. Machines worked beautifully and did the job I > wanted. I told them about Linux, some students actually graduated and use > Linux, only that they prefer Ubuntu and they come and tell me about it. They > tell me it(Ubuntu) picks up the wireless and your Fedora does not. I tell > them as long as it works and it is Linux that I am very happy that they are > running it. Sorry to take up your time. I hope you enjoy > reading the article if you get to it. > > Regards, > > Antonio
He has two options for games which I am only aware of, but haven't used myself as I don't play games on my computer: 1) Wine / Codeweaver 2) Get a copy of Windows XP (might be able to get one free or cheap from school) and run it in a virt machine. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
