Re: [PLUG] pointers for newbies by us oldies

Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> · Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:37:23 -0400

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:13:40AM -0400, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
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> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:48:55PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
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> >>http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz
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> >>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

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