[ale] GNOME Journal article: The Liberal Arts Major Test

[aaron]

Good link and article. Thanks for noting it.

>From experiences setting up my daughter with Mandrake, I think the "average" 

high school and early college students are our best target demographic for 
switching to Linux.  At that stage of growing we are all more open minded, 
receptive to change and more likely to appreciate the advantages in system 
control, customization and flexibility that Linux offers. The main hard to 
switch exceptions are specialty app fans like hard core computer gamers who 
demand the latest releases and drivers for the bleeding edge hardware.

After her first semester at college, my daughter is still very happy with her 
Mandrake box and the Linux / OSS apps, and is accepting of the fact
that her sometimes her system won't  support the same things that the latest 
Main$tream, commercial supported systems do.

Her biggest complaint is not finding a spread sheet as complete and well 
designed as M$ ex-hell.  She uses Open Office for other apps, but is not 
happy with the spread sheet area.

Anyone know of Linux based Spread Sheet alternatives that honestly meet or 
surpass the M$ ex-hell offering?

peace
aaron




On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:57, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> Not sure how many keep up with GNOME Journal, but this was an
> interesting piece that made it to Slashdot:
> 
> The Liberal Arts Major Test
> http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/13/the-liberal-arts-major-test
> 
> This guy apparently installed Debian sid on a scrapper of an x86 PC and
> showed his friend the basics and left her to it - 2 years ago.  The
> title plays off of those Grandmother Tests that kept popping up when
> Linux on the desktop first became a hot topic.
> 
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