[TriLUG] True Story about a rehat 9.0 desktop

Jeff Tickle jtickle at jtsoft.net
Mon Oct 25 12:09:55 EDT 2004


Peace, man.  It's all about peace.  Microsoft, all they care about is
fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and these things cause war.  Linux, the
whole thing is just a manifestation of peace.  Friends coming together
to build something wonderful...

*passes the blunt around*

-Jeff

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:51 -0400, john broome wrote:
> Jeff Tickle wrote:
> > That's great!  I am not the only one running Linux at Appalachian, but I
> > have an interesting stoory about it anyway.  A few weeks ago (maybe a
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > The next week, the laptop was beyond being usable again.  He asked me to
> > put Linux, so I put Fedora Core 2 on it.  I showed him where the web
> > browser and gaim were and demonstrated how to save OpenOffice files as
> > Word documents and vice verca.  About 5 minutes of training.  Every time
> > I see him though he's excited about how well it works, how easy it is to
> > use, fast, etc.
> 
> 
> Woohoo, preach that linux message to those hippies!
> 
> --
> john broome, ASU class of '99  :)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/attachments/20041025/d26c9e7f/attachment.pgp>


More information about the TriLUG mailing list