[ubuntu-marketing] Why should we teach students Linux??

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Monday 12 March 2007 14:56:50 Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:46, James McDonald wrote:
> > Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > I fully agree. My daughter (now 13) only knows OpenOffice, Mozilla, and
> > > (don't call social services) GIMP. She is happy in this.
> >
> > I'm still migrating my wife... I am getting there slowly :) It would
> > help if she had a stable Linux platform to use... My box is always
> > "under construction" (with the annoying rotating gif and all).
>
> My wife gave up on me.  I wish I could get her to use the computer, but she
> said that it looked different every time she got on.  My advice, having
> suffered the loss of her interest, is to give her a consistent look and
> feel. Period.  Whatever it takes.

My wife gave up on that. Then, I stopped making these types of changes to her 
account. Then, (pardon all the women on the list, but 'being a woman') she 
wondered why only my and my daughter's account had all these nifty new 
things. She has relented. Her only requirement is that e-mail (evolution) and 
browsing (firefox) can be found. Somewhere.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB