[GRLUG] What are you doing to expose people to Linux?

John Harig radiodurans at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 22 17:45:06 EST 2007


Im in Colombia introducing women at bars to the
sensitive way in which helping the elderly use
computers with linux, and impressing them with the
fact that Im trying to learn spanish by installing the
Colombian language package in debian.

--- Bill Creswell <billcreswell at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's cool to show people who use "doo-dads" the
> Freespire versions of linux,
> with Click and Run downloads of thousands of free
> programs. Plus with the
> built in "proprietary" drivers and programs, it
> works for most of the little
> things that trip people up.
> 
> It's easier to mention linux when people have Vista
> too. My new laptop "hard
> freezes" two or three times a week. Doing
> complicated things like running
> Opera, or playing freecell.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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