[ale] Linux Evangelism

[jt holmes]

My dad is 87 and earlier this year I got him to try knoppix 3.7 Live and 
he loves it. He is basically
an Internet and Email Junkie so it works fine for him and I gave him a 
128mb USB Flash Disk and showed
him how to save his dial up config, and desktop to it and he is happy as 
punch.

He doesnt do much text writing etc. and does not need formal things like 
OO or Word so I taught
him the basic VIM and he is fine.

The biggest feature for him is that it Never Never crashes out from 
under him and he doesnt have to
worry about anyone compromising his hard disks with some type of virus 
since it is all run from memory.
This is especially important with email.
Also, I must have reloaded Win98 50 times for him in the last
3-4 years, and that does not happen anymore as his net access is via 
Knoppix.

When he wants to save something I have him mount his disk momentarily, 
write the data and unmount
the disk.

Klaus Kopper is to be congatulated for his efforts, he is a true Patriot 
of Linux.



Robert Coggins wrote:

> Actually some of them have already requested copies and he is making 
> them!
>
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:12 -0400, Robert Coggins wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I just thought I would share this neat story with you all.  My dad 
>>> is a teacher and I would consider alightly above average with 
>>> computers.  He has never used anything but MS.  I kept talking to 
>>> him about linux and finally I was able to show him something on a 
>>> knoppix 3.7 CD.  At that time he was having trouble with his windows 
>>> install.   I showed him how he can use that CD to go in an recover 
>>> files.  I then showed him some of the programs on there such as open 
>>> office and kstars.
>>> He is a middle school science teacher and ended up using knoppix to 
>>> teach class using kstars.  He showed his principal and others this 
>>> and they all ohhed and ahhed.  He is also in a master's program.  
>>> They are having some special technology class/presentations.  He is 
>>> going to use knoppix in his presentation and use openoffice for the 
>>> presentation.  I thought this was great and thought of you all when 
>>> he told me about all of this!
>>>   
>>
>>
>> WOOHOO!!! Score one for our side!!!!!
>>
>> It's always great to hear when someone gets impressed with what
>> opensource can do. It's even better when they are a teacher.
>>
>> Make him several dozen CDs to give way to his students so they can work
>> with the same tools at home.
>>
>>  
>>
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