[plug] Triumph! We did it!

Paul Dean paul at thecave.cantech.net.au
Wed May 15 01:23:48 WST 2002


<--------- Prints HUGE Linux Banner...
and runs outside to stick it up on the street poles to advertise....

Cool that we can break though to the young ones and educate them that M$
is not the only OS...

Great stuff...


On Wed, 15 May 2002, John Knight wrote:

> There's a kid called Cameron who lives near me, he's 11. He knows sod all 
> about computers, but he uses RH 6.0 on his 486 every so often and plays  
> Gnotravex and a few other games. He plays Gnibbles with his friends and has 
> no qualms about typing "halt" in a console to shutdown. It brings a tear to 
> your eye, doesn't it? RH 6.0!!!!!!!!!! Imagine what something like Mandrake 
> 8.2 would be like eh? It just goes to prove that we don't have to educate 
> complete newbies in an environment like windoze, introducing the Unix based 
> concepts initially is fine!
> 
> one proud tomato!
> 
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-- 
Paul...

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