Hi my name is Karen and i am a Mandrake now Mandriva
user big time. I work with special needs children
here in nevada and the reason, I hear, the school
district does not teach LINUX is that micro-puck-soft
has a contract with the school district. It is taught
at UNR, so suck eggs gates!!! Anyway I really love
LINUX and will never install windows into a computer
of mine again.....
--- William Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Jay,
>
> Thanks for checking in. It's good to know that there
> are, indeed, some
> chronologically-gifted folks out there. I don't mind
> being old . . .
> until I try to put my socks on.
>
> I want a Mac real bad. I love Linux and am just
> getting into BSD and,
> for me, it's all hobby, except that I do use the
> computers for writing
> and the other regular stuff.
>
> But I'm on a fixed income (and I didn't fix it) now,
> so luxuries and
> even some necessities often are not possible. I used
> to be one of the
> misguided who thought BeOS stood a chance. I caught
> the BeOS mystique
> and was disappointed when they laid it in its grave
> -- even though a lot
> of people are trying to clone it.
>
> I guess, having seen the third world, and some
> poorer parts of our own
> nation, I have the hope that Linux can provide a
> means by which people
> who are otherwise disadvantaged can have access to
> computers. And now,
> it even looks as though, if some of our schools are
> to keep computer
> programs, so of us Linux enthusiasts are going to
> have to strongly
> suggest they try it, even though -- and this is the
> ironic part, because
> people are suspicious of things that are free
> (perhaps that's why part
> of the world is suspicious of people living in free
> countries) -- it
> comes with no cost and little or no overhead.
>
> I've said it a hundred times, and I'm going to say
> it again: The
> open-source community should be nominated for a
> Nobel Peace Prize. Here
> is one of the most workable examples of how problems
> can be solved
> peacefully by individuals who give of their time and
> knowledge and who
> come from all corners of the world.
>
> Got to stop yammering here. People are probably
> already sick of me. But
> Linux is a good thing. And so are people who support
> it.
>
> Thank you for sharing your story. I'm really
> enjoying hearing from the
> folks out there. It sounds like a strong community
> of Linux users. That
> makes me very lucky.
>
> William Roddy
> Quincy CA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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