[ale] A fulfilling moment

[Dow Hurst]

I read somewhere, it will come to me and I'll post it, that HP is switching to 
selling Linux on it's desktops.  Anyone heard anything about this?  I read it 
last night when doing email but just can't remember the source.
Dow


Joe Knapka wrote:
> 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
> 
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