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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:18:53 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "Rod Person" <roddierod@yahoo.com>, "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Teaching parents UNIX
Message-ID:  <014001c18f56$c447be00$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <011101c18f12$f31aaec0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><200112272027.fBRKR9t17197@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20011227184810.6b3993fe.roddierod@yahoo.com>

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Rod writes:

> I'm going to go tell my 4 year old daughter
> that FreeBSD is to complicated and complex and
> worthless on the desktop! And no matter how much
> see begs to play mad bomber or draw in the GIMP
> or type her letters in Abiword or even browse
> to nick.com in Opera that no she can not do it
> because you need window or maybe i'll just teach
> her to build a server!

No need.  Just give her Windows and she'll forget FreeBSD.  Or, if you hate
Microsoft in the way that so many young males do, give her a Mac.  The Mac
actually wins from an ease-of-use standpoint, but it has other disadvantages
that usually make it less desirable than Windows.


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