From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT> The Real Darkside...
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:21:21 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060910132121.79503574.nick@rout.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609091503.58445.mcbrides9@comcast.net>
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:03:58 -0400
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net> 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?". Knowing that
there was an unused 35G partition on the hard drive awaiting a linux
install I said "go for it".
So I looked over his shoulder and made sure he didn't junk the windows
partition. I advised him on the choice between kde and gnome, and
assured that the other would still be available to install later. Other
than that he did the whole thing.
By the time he went to bed it was running and he'd been on the net using
firefox and checked that runescape (online java game) worked. By the
time I got up this morning he was setting up his RSS feeds in kontact
and configuring various other bits.
Pretty good I thought. Not sure whether it says something about Miles,
or about SuSE's ease of installation (probably both). He has used linux
before, and is pretty computer literate (gaining a "High Distinction"
in an international exam, batting against kids 2 years older), but
neither those exams nor school do much to prepare you for installing a
different OS.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-09 19:03 [gentoo-user] <OT> The Real Darkside Jerry McBride
2006-09-09 19:31 ` Mick
2006-09-09 20:12 ` Daniel Waeber
2006-09-09 20:46 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-09-09 23:20 ` Mick
2006-09-11 22:58 ` Lord Sauron
2006-09-10 3:59 ` Norberto Bensa
[not found] ` <2364889.lF9yls7x7V@m-id.message-center.info>
[not found] ` <200609091758.27028.mcbrides9@comcast.net>
2006-09-10 8:07 ` [gentoo-user] Re: " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-10 16:31 ` Jerry McBride
2006-09-09 20:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Jeff Grant
2006-09-10 1:21 ` Nick Rout [this message]
2006-09-10 1:41 ` Jerry McBride
2006-09-10 3:07 ` Zac Slade
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