Hello Yeah Im finding this too. The thirty somethings are hard to get off M$ were the kids just love it.
and I quote WOW look at all these cool programs and they are free and wow it even has python and perl and java MAAAN this would cost me a house in windows land. and Gnome 2.0 MAAN those icons are soo cool way better than the boring ones in XP Also heard on New Radio were the anouncer was saying his son (teenager) is totaly into Linux and now wont touch Microsoft stuff. On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:34, Paul Copeland wrote: > Hi All, > > Well today I ran my first welcome to Linux lesson. I have 14 students who > have decided to join the group which will meet at Lunch every second Friday > and some students plan to come back after school for an hour for further play. > > I plan to have Red Hat, Lycoris, Mandrake 8.0 or Libranet 2.0 running on > different machines (although Red Hat 7.1 won't install on the 3 Gb Hard > drive, when it transfers the install image it claims there is not enough > space, even though the install is slightly over 1 GB). I also have one of > the Celeron 300s running BeOS which transforms the speed of the > machine. (I know it is not Linux but an Open source version is due for > release soon). > > So hopefully at Cabramatta High we may get some new Linux users, I will > also tell them about SLUG and Tux for Teens. > > Now I can't wait to for the kids to see Red Hat 8.0, what Jeff demonstrated > on last Friday was impressive. > > Just to note I had to turn away about 5 kids until next term so the > interest certainly is there. > > All the best > Paul > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
