From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GMEPb-0007yV-Iu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:47:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8A1kIgL013181; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:46:18 GMT Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [63.240.77.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8A1fr2o016228 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:41:53 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060910014152014008kbj7e>; Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:41:52 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The Real Darkside... Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:41:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200609091503.58445.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <20060910132121.79503574.nick@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060910132121.79503574.nick@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609092141.51751.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 99575050-3c94-429c-a5de-10ce7634ee31 X-Archives-Hash: 37309c09fb208fec392a3a1a949e9997 On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:21, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:03:58 -0400 > > Jerry McBride wrote: > > My son, all of thirteen years old, the master of all he surveys, the > > supreme keeper of all knowledge of the known and unknown universes, the > > pinultimate ruler of mankind... Has "asked" me to put Linux on his > > desktop computer... > > > > It seems he has become weary of maintaining/re-installed his beloved > > XP... > > > > Life is good. > > > > Cheers, Jerry > > > > P.S. the next to be converted beneath my humble roof is my wife... Stay > > tuned. > > There must be something in the air. My 10 year old son Miles and I have > an ongoing friendly banter about the relative merits of windows and > linux. He has windows software at school and games to play after all. > > Anyway last night he was reading a section in the latest APC magazine > about the latest innovations in linux desktops, and comparing linux to > vista. He suddenly asked if he could obtain SuSE 10.1. I said "I think > its on the cover DVD". He said "Can I install it then?". Nice! Maybe there's hope for the X-generation anyways... XBOX-Generation... Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list