That rox Nick!
I hope you sent the APC guys a copy of this, I know some of their team
personally. They'd love to publish this story for sure!
Cheers Don
Nick Rout wrote:
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).
Hopefully its the thin end of the wedge around here, as he set up a user
for Sue as well.
Nick.
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