Re: [PLUG] pointers for newbies by us oldies

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@lrcressy.com>]

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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.


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