[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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