>you're preaching to the choir. I'm typing this on a Sun Ultra, it goes through a Linux firewall to get to you - no windows machines at all in that trail. I have an NT server running Citrix WinFrame so that I can use Word and Excel easily from the Ultra.
Running solaris, linux, bsd?
> Astro - re: I'm not willing to accept the > But I think you are missing my point on Linux as a consumer OS.
>re: If they learned how to install software for windows, they can learn how to install software for linux.
> The point is they DIDN'T learn to install on windows - there's nothing to learn. As you say, it's plug in the CD, click OK a couple of times and the next thing you know, you're in the game.
There's nothing to prevent that from happening on linux. You just need to convince some company to sell such a CD. Personally, I hope they'd also offer a free version for download off the web. I'd like it even more if they designed their software in an extensible way and posted the source some place like sourceforge so others could improve and add to it.
> I think 2001 may be the year when Linux finally starts making desktop inroads, and 2nd half of 2000 will tell the tale. If so, there should be a lot of "pretty good stuff" at Linux World next month, and a lot of big players dangling the carrot.
I'm not sure how one defines "starts making desktop inroads". But I think we probably agree it will spread with time.
> The flip side of the coin is that my 4 year old doesn't know or care that she's running Windows, anything that does what she wants to do is equally good. It will be an interesting horse race for the next 18 months.
Does she do anything other than play games? I think it would have been good for me if I had been raised bilingual (wrt human language, computer language, os, etc.). She might enjoy playing with different kinds of computers/oses.
> Finally, as far as spending time with the kids, I am almost completely retired, and love those kids obsessively - the time they spend on the computer is probably to get away from me and my next family activity <GG>. It's a rare day when I don't spend at least 4 hours with them, not counting meals, getting dressed, etc. In the summer, with no school, it's about double that.
Good to hear. But then I don't understand the purpose of the "educational" games. If it's just to pass time, then it's not like running linux would ruin her chances of success in becoming education. Some are even educational (mine sweeper is the first that comes to mind). |
