On 06/19/2011 05:36:21 AM, Gary Waters wrote: <snip> > I downloaded the 32-bit Fedora 15 XFCE live cd, ran it, noticed there > were no oscillating yellow lines going down the LCD screen and > installed to hard drive. There is a God! My 75 year old mother loves > it! Years ago, I watched Revolution OS with my Mom and Dad. I was President or VP of the local linux users group and I wanted my parents to see what I was doing. Must've been about 2001, 2002. Anyway, my Mom had not had a computer up until then. She saw the movie and insisted on having a computer, and having Linux on that computer. She was and still is totally taken with the ideas behind FOSS and wanted to support it as much as she could. So we got her a laptop from Linux Certified. It does exactly what she wants and she never has to worry about catching a virus, blue screens, screwing it up, or anything else. Yes, I have to be her sysadmin for major upgrades, but I would have to do that if she were running Windows as well. Dad appreciated all the ideas behind FOSS and agrees with most of them, but has confessed to being too lazy to want to learn a new OS. He designed some of the first ICs ever made by AMD and completely swore off computers when he retired in the early 80's, but was entranced back by Zork I on my very early Toshiba laptop (late 80's). Anyway, he's still a Gateswear user, for now. Rikke -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
