Re: OT: Linux holds back the kids
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Don Raikes don.rai...@oracle.com 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:olivares14...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:53 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com 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 fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
RE: OT: Linux holds back the kids
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:olivares14...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:53 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT: Linux holds back the kids
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 16:52:53 -0800, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear all, This is somewhat OT, but in light of this, I have to disagree with that teacher who made the claim. Make sure you read the followups here. There were some misundstandings and the original article doesn't give a good picture of what happened. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT: Linux holds back the kids
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 16:52:53 -0800, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear all, This is somewhat OT, but in light of this, I have to disagree with that teacher who made the claim. Make sure you read the followups here. There were some misundstandings and the original article doesn't give a good picture of what happened. I believe I read the entire thing, and there were no misunderstandings, just ignorance. Once that ignorance was resolved, everything was okay -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT: Linux holds back the kids
Antonio Olivares wrote: I hope you enjoy reading the article if you get to it. Huummm Sounds like some of the discussions on this list :-) -- It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their dignity. mei-mei.gres...@greshko.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
