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On Jan 14, 2005, at 5:24 AM, aaron wrote:

&gt;
&gt; Good link and article. Thanks for noting it.
&gt;
&gt; From experiences setting up my daughter with Mandrake, I think the  
&gt; &quot;average&quot;
&gt; high school and early college students are our best target demographic  
&gt; for
&gt; switching to Linux.  At that stage of growing we are all more open  
&gt; minded,
&gt; receptive to change and more likely to appreciate the advantages in  
&gt; system
&gt; control, customization and flexibility that Linux offers. The main  
&gt; hard to
&gt; switch exceptions are specialty app fans like hard core computer  
&gt; gamers who
&gt; demand the latest releases and drivers for the bleeding edge hardware.
&gt;
&gt; After her first semester at college, my daughter is still very happy  
&gt; with her
&gt; Mandrake box and the Linux / OSS apps, and is accepting of the fact
&gt; that her sometimes her system won't  support the same things that the  
&gt; latest
&gt; Main$tream, commercial supported systems do.
&gt;
&gt; Her biggest complaint is not finding a spread sheet as complete and  
&gt; well
&gt; designed as M$ ex-hell.  She uses Open Office for other apps, but is  
&gt; not
&gt; happy with the spread sheet area.
&gt;
&gt; Anyone know of Linux based Spread Sheet alternatives that honestly  
&gt; meet or
&gt; surpass the M$ ex-hell offering?
&gt;
&gt; peace
&gt; aaron
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:57, Barry Hawkins wrote:
&gt;&gt; Not sure how many keep up with GNOME Journal, but this was an
&gt;&gt; interesting piece that made it to Slashdot:
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt; The Liberal Arts Major Test
&gt;&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/13/the-liberal-arts-major-test";>http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/13/the-liberal-arts-major-test</a>
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt; This guy apparently installed Debian sid on a scrapper of an x86 PC  
&gt;&gt; and
&gt;&gt; showed his friend the basics and left her to it - 2 years ago.  The
&gt;&gt; title plays off of those Grandmother Tests that kept popping up when
&gt;&gt; Linux on the desktop first became a hot topic.
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt; --
&gt;&gt; Barry Hawkins
&gt;&gt; All Things Computed
&gt;&gt; site: www.alltc.com
&gt;&gt; weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
&gt;&gt;
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