[ale] A fulfilling moment

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 07:25 am, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I had a similar experience at a nearby church where I rehabilitated a
> junker PC with Linux for the afterschool program.  After a few weeks, I
> founf that some of the older kids were actually booting it up and
> enjoying playing Konquest on it.  Imagine how I felt when I was asked
> how someone could get the software...

This weekend my kids asked if they could play on their computer which runs 
Win2k professional (don't ask).  I said yes, then a few minutes later my 5 
year old called "Dad?  Should we eat the red fish?"  

It took me about 10 seconds before I realized they had booted up Knoppix Edu 
and were playing TuxCart.  Eating green fish makes you sick, and red fish do 
something else.  It's about time to make their machine dual boot.

Michael

> - Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 07:15, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > Excelent to hear.  Hopefully other students and parents will see it and
> > ask what he's using.  You always start with 1...
> >
> > Thus spake Joe Knapka (jknapka at kneuro.net):
> > > A few weeks ago, I installed Fedora Core 1 on my karate sensei's Win98
> > > box (dual boot). He's a smart guy, but not at all computer-savvy. I
> > > told him, "It will take some time to get used to the Linux
> > > environment, but if you give it a chance, you will find it to be much
> > > less troublesome."
> > >
> > > Over the intervening weeks, I've installed some things he needed to
> > > get his work done (OpenOffice, vncviewer, etc), showed him how to
> > > migrate his M$Office documents to OO, and got his new DSL service
> > > working under both Linux and Windows. But I've never seen the machine
> > > running Linux unless I was there working on it.
> > >
> > > Tonight, for the first time, I arrived at the dojo for class and saw
> > > that the machine was actually booted into Linux, and had apparently
> > > been used that way for a good part of the day. It was a *really*
> > > nice feeling!
> > >
> > > -- Joe
> > >
> > > --
> > > Resist the feed.
> > > --
> > > If you really want to get my attention, send mail to
> > > jknapka .at. kneuro .dot. net.
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