[ale] A fulfilling moment

[Jeff Hubbs]

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...

- 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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