Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Yana Lehey <yana@lemis.com> Subject: Computers for kids (was: Back to school) Message-ID: <19990129091524.K8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36B03AC0.97BC1551@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:24:00AM %2B0000 References: <19990128162246.A4819@freebie.lemis.com> <36B03AC0.97BC1551@uk.radan.com>
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On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 10:24:00 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> My daughter has just gone back to school after the summer break. She >> brought back a sheet of paper today with various hints on how to use >> their Microsoft system. One thing I found particularly interesting: >> >> * Deleting a file is simple. Right click on the Start button and >> choose Explore. >> >> * Scroll down to the Network Neighbourhood. Navigate your way to >> the folder as before. >> >> * Move the mouse on to the file you want to change and right click. >> You can now delete or rename the file. >> >> Is there something wrong with me to think that this is more >> complicated than `rm file'? >> > > You haven't Cc:'d this to the school ;-) I'm still waiting for the answer to my last message. > Serious question Greg. Does your daughter use a computer at home, > other than for games? Yes. > If so does she use one of your Unix boxes or do you have a Windows > PC? The machine she has is dual boot. Most of the time she runs FreeBSD, but occasionally she has to boot Microsoft for games or some such. > I ask because I've setup KDE and fvwm95 on my machine (I use olvwm) > together with a selection of games and editor/word processor packages > (Wordpad type things) to see if I could get the kids to use FreeBSD > instead of Win95. She uses fvwm2, not fvwm95. > It has proved quite a successful exercise but my eldest daughter (12) > is now starting to get research type homework tasks for which a > Multimedia Encyclopaedia (no, we don't use M$ Encarta) is invaluable. > As all of these are Windows-only it really prevents me from being able > to remove Win95 (and give FreeBSD another 255MB). Agreed. This annoys me a lot as well > OK, such research could be done on the Internet, but telephone charges > could make this prohibitive, especially for schools. I rather hope > that with the increased acceptance of Linux in the mainstream we may > see Linux versions of such software available in the not too distant > future. Then I can get rid of 95. I suppose it depends on what you mean by ``not too distant''. I don't see any evidence of people doing any extra work here, and that's what it would boil down to. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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