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Old 12th April 2004, 02:52 PM
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Two down, a couple million to go

I just converted my girlfriends parents to Fedora Core Linux from Win98. They have little computer knowledge so I was amazed at how quickly they were able to learn Mozilla and Linux in general. They noticed that Linux tends to boot slower, but they will be happy that linux is so much more stable and secure.

Well two more have seen the light. Lets keep them coming.
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Old 12th April 2004, 03:10 PM
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Heh, I'm moving my family over to Mandrake shortly.

I know I'm a big fan of Fedora, but I don't think that it is nice enough for all of them to use. I feel that Mandrake has the usability edge, which is why i'm gonna set that up for them.
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Old 12th April 2004, 06:02 PM
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Fedora does boot kidna slow, but if you can find a way for it to stop searching for drives that dont exist it would speed it up. I know mine used to search (before my whole system crashed) for hde hdf and hdg which didnt exist, so it tacked prolly another minute onto the boot time. I dont know how to get it to not search for them, but im sure there is a way.
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Old 12th April 2004, 08:04 PM
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Is boot time everything?
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Re: Two down, a couple million to go

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They have little computer knowledge so I was amazed at how quickly they were able to learn Mozilla and Linux in general.

That's why they were quick to pick up on it. They never had much of a chance to pick up a bunch of bad habits (windows/msie)

Of the time that I've been put up to do firearms instruction, it always seemed that my best students were the one's who'd never had a weapon in their hands before. The hardest thing to do is trying to un-learn bad form.
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my kids will start using computer with linux so if they learn from early age it would be easier for them i guess
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Of the time that I've been put up to do firearms instruction, it always seemed that my best students were the one's who'd never had a weapon in their hands before. The hardest thing to do is trying to un-learn bad form.
That would be virtually everyone in the UK then.
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I am convinced that if people started learning computers with a distro like Fedora then they would have a far easier time than people just starting out with XP.
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