On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 11:03, Erich Schulz wrote: > Paul Copeland wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am a little excited at present. The other day a Year 11 student came > > up to me asking about Linux. We had a 10 minute chat about why I > > believe it is a good option. So today I gave him a copy of Lycoris > > Desktop/LX to try at home. Some may question why Lycoris, well it seems > > a good desktop solution, and for a student totally comfortable with XP > > it is a good start, in my simple opinion that is. Although with the > > headache the nVidia drivers are giving me my view may change.
Ive got a GeForce 3 card working with mdk 9.0(pre 3) as we speak basicaly it detected the card from the start a real no brainer and Ive got firewire also up and going.....just need to find stuff to use with it :-P > > > > So after 7 months one taker. I only hope a few more take up the > > challenge. Another student didn't like the blurb on Lycoris' website > > which said "Linux is for everyone" , "No it isn't sir it is too hard." > > he said as he walked out the door. Oh well, head meet the brickwall. > > > > All the best > > Paul > > > > I can proudly say that my nephew, in yr 12, got into Linux in yr10 after > seeing my set up at home. Nowadays he leaves me for dead, but he still > needs some help when it to interfacing some neat robots he is working on. > > With all of his firends, it has really taken off, mainly because of the > networked games. > > Cheers > > > Erich > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
