From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 28 14:45:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29477 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:45:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29466 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:45:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA27169; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:25 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id JAA10668; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: FreeBSD Chat , Yana Lehey Subject: Computers for kids (was: Back to school) Message-ID: <19990129091524.K8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990128162246.A4819@freebie.lemis.com> <36B03AC0.97BC1551@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36B03AC0.97BC1551@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:24:00AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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