Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Installing extra programs on a fresh install
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Lisi wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2008 16:59:22 Gordon Scott wrote:
>
>> So at least they're not _all_ being brainwashed.
>>
>
> My granddaughter was previously an ardent Linux fan and missionary. When,
> aged 10, she spent half a term with us in order to go to the village school
> to improve her slightly rusty English, she went round the playground trying
> to convert them all to Linux ("And she didn't even know what Linux was,
> Grandma!"). And I have just discovered that when she got home to Japan on
> that occasion she asked her father for Linux on her own Mac - and got it!!
>
> But she is now doing the ghastly enforced school IT curriculum, which is not
> remotely about IT, but entirely about secretarial skills using the programs
> of only one well-known company. So IT is now a dirty word. :-( She is bored
> rigid in the lessons.
>
> And this laptop (second hand, I hasten to add) was my birthday present to her
> and I said that I would get it wireless enabled and able to input Japanese
> from the keyboard (on an English system) by the time she started at the
> senior school. I.e. by next week. And, thank goodness, I have!!
>
> But she is more than happy that it runs Linux - the idea that it might be
> possible to have anything else on it never crossed her mind - and had said
> that she didn't mind which Distro I used. So I tried several and went for
> the one that seemed the best compromise between her wants/needs and mine!
>
> So, Al, Kubuntu and I have reached a slightly uneasy truce. ;-)
Cool - I think it is fair to say that both you and your granddaughter
rock Lisi!
