(fwd) Awesome story
Scott writes:
I just thought I would share a little experience of mine that you might like.
Last night I was flying back from Boise on Alaska Air. I had my laptop (Compaq Evo N800w) up and running RH9 and had just started to play Tux Racer for the first time ever after doing a little filesystem housekeeping when one of the flight attendants, a woman who had to be at least 55 if not 60 years old, stopped, commented that the game looked cute, and asked me where I got it. I told her I was running linux and it came with the OS. She responded that she had tried to put linux on her laptop but had problems getting the display working right. Needless to say, my jaw dropped. She goes on to tell me how she's running Win98 but using Opera instead of IE and she is just getting of MS telling her what to run and she's sick of their security holes that you can drive a truck through. After chatting a bit longer I asked her when she had tried to install linux on her laptop and she told me it was probably four or five years ago! She went back to Win98 because she didn't feel she was up to building a new kernel which was what she thought she might have to do. Keep in mind this flight attendant looked like she had to be at least 55...
Hmmm. Maybe my Mom is ready for a linux desktop afterall. ;)
posted Fri 26 Mar 2004 in /software/linux | link
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