[K12OSN] Maybe Linux is ready for the desktop
Shawn Henderson
shawn at techcoms.net
Mon Jul 5 18:38:58 UTC 2004
I took a knoppix cd to a school and let the children play on an old pII.
There are 4 windoze boxes next to it. After the first week I had to
burn 4 more cd's due to all the fighting over the knoppix box.
Carl Keil wrote:
> For those of you trying to justify Linux to Administrators, teachers and
> other skeptics, here's an interesting anecdote about Linux's ease of
> use/familiarity to new users.
>
> I have a couple of 12 year old kids staying at my house for a few
> weeks. I told them they could use my k12ltsp 4 server if they wanted as
> a workstation. (Since I can't get any @#$% terminals working yet.)
> They've been hogging my wife's Mac and I wanted to let her get back to
> it. They're usually windows users. When I found one of them using it I
> asked him if he'd ever used Linux. He said, "No, what's that?" I
> pointed to the screen and explained to him what an operating system
> was. He had been happily surfing the web. The only instructions I gave
> him earlier were to point at the terminal and say log in as foo/bar.
>
> Just thought I'd share. I was pretty dumbfounded, actually. I thought
> he'd need me to tell him where stuff was, etc.
>
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