I handed a Ubuntu CD to one of our volunteers at the St Albans Centre. He told me a few weeks later he'd tried it, then wiped his XP installation, and made Ubuntu his sole OS.
Now that came as a surprise! I did nothing except give him a CD - he did all the rest himself. Wesley Parish On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:07, 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. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ------------- Mau ki ana, he aha te mea nui? You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku ki ana, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
