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Rik Tindall wrote:
Zane Gilmore wrote:
just got a phone call from a high school teacher in Oxford.
He says he has a bunch of young geeks that are interested in Linux
and wanted some advice on how to get them started.
- I'll ring that teacher back this Wednesday Zane.
Never got to do that yet, sorry..
Because we had 2 new Linuxers in the Green Room:
Installed a Toshi w/Ubuntu & am happy to say I tested the auto-partition
option for the first time, which squashed WinME into 3GB+ (without my
defragmenting 1st, & it still runs) and gave 6GB+ for Ubuntu & Swap. One
happy new user. The other will be installed next week, after we check
specs & maybe shop for a cheap better box.
So, the politics of free/open are a proven selling point now. But the
main one we can build trade on, I believe, is productivity - time
recovered from anti-virus monitoring, more efficient desktop
organisation, quicker copy/paste action,.. (those are my top three
reasons for never returning to M$-land; others may have more). But
businesses really do stand to gain, with KDE/Gnome of a standard to win
many more converts now.
Anyway, to our twice-monthly *nix public interfaces, we can definately
add this weekly, Wednesdays 10am-2pm 'free shopfront': 16 Bedford Row.
The vision: a *nix recycling plant & netcafe, step by step..
If you can't ring back & refer that teacher on to us Zane, I'll try for
1st task next Weds again.
Cheers,
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Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz>, on:
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.10 free OS, 2.6.12-9-k7 kernel, GNOME 2.12.1 desktop
OpenOffice.org 1.9.129, Mozilla 1.7.12 email client & web browser
GIMP 2.2.8 graphics, gedit 2.12.1 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 file transfer
