| Jeff Abrahamson on 24 Aug 2006 12:37:50 -0000 |
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:13:40AM -0400, LeRoy Cressy wrote: > [67 lines, 315 words, 2852 characters] Top characters: tenoiash > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:48:55PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > >>http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz > >> > >>It's not perfect, and it's a little dated, but it gets some of the > >>conceptual parts across reasonably well. > > > > > > That's an excellent intro for you or me, thanks for sharing it. But I > > think it will scare away my Windows-using friend who uses Office and > > MSIE as his two main app suites and sees a computer as mostly that. I > > think I need to point him at something that doesn't ever require > > running an xterm variant. > > > > I have found that the best selling tool for Linux is a KNOPPIX CD where > the person can use Linux prior to installing it on their box. The > Windows user can see how kde works along with open office and a lot of > other applications. > > If they want to install Linux and they have a good network connection I > tell them that they can continue to use both Linux and windows on the > same machine. I have found that after they have started using Linux for > a while the majority will eventually switch to using Linux almost > exclusively. Thanks, that's very good advice. I also found that Wikipedia has an article on knoppix that augments nicely the knoppix website for explaining what knoppix is. Thanks much to all who responded on and off list. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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