Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:52:50 +0000 From: Jon Acker <ackerj@easynet.co.uk> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Back to school Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19990129235250.00689304@mail.easynet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <36B03AC0.97BC1551@uk.radan.com> References: <19990128162246.A4819@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 10:24 28/01/99 +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'? > >Serious question Greg. Does your daughter use a computer at home, >other than for games? If so does she use one of your Unix boxes or do >you have a Windows PC? > >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. > Interesting to hear someone else talk about this subject. I wanted to try and set up WindowMaker (my fav. wm at the mo.) for my girlfriend (whose used mainly Mac's) to try and use and see how she would cope but fear there aren't enough graphics apps around (she a graphic designer) for FreeBSD/Linux for me to convince her. Still Unix/X is *so* configurable that there might be *some* selling point. >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). I haven't tried WINE (windows emulator) myself, but maybe that would some sort of solution? * Jonathan Acker * 0181 374-1012 * ackerj@easynet.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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