Hi Roberto, I have been in a local internet cafe where there are macs,unix and win side by side. All that is required is to tell them which icon is for the browser and which one is for word processing. You said 'a new OS' but with a GUI on top, no one is looking at the OS right-out-of-the-box. No one is naturally looking for the 'dos prompt' or terminal. Konquror is a fine file viewer. If you pop knoppix on a lan enabled PC, 90% of the time, its just click-n-go. No 're-education'. I dont know if you think all windows users are not up to the challange of 'a free os' but if they can learn to live with a BSOD os, linux should seem like a walk in the park. After they see that its 'similar' you can show them 'the man behind the curtain' (a picture of richard stallman). Wait on second thought, maybe just the cute penguins!! =K On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 22:05, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I am scheduled to give a presentation in one of my courses in a couple of > weeks. > I will be presenting a comparison between proprietary software licenses and > free software licenses. I wanted to make up a collection of free software to > put on CD and duplicate to pass out to the members of the class to give them > something to try out. It is a safe assumption that every single person in the > class is a Windows user and would not be comfortable with a new OS right off > the > bat (that rules out Knoppix). These are the programs that I have so far > (all for Windows): > > OpenOffice.org v1.1Beta (becuase of the nifty extra features over 1.0.3) > Mozilla v1.3 > Audacity > GIMP > > That covers about 90MB, so what should I put on the other 610MB? > > -Roberto Sanchez > > ___________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS > Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... > http://messenger.yahoo.es -- Kevin Mark <kmark@pipeline.com>
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