Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
These kids are used to these four freedoms, illegal, but works fir them. You may want to stress that their current (probable) actions are illegal, and that the existing model of selling software is one which changes into selling services. Talk about the ability to avoid vendor-lock, as part of it

Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread Uri Even-Chen
Thank you. Uri Even-Chen Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559 E-mail: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedy.net/ On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:42, amichay p. k. wrote: > i wish there was a "like" in email... > very good idea. > > 2011/1/10 Uri Even-Chen >> >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:35, Gabor

Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread amichay p. k.
i wish there was a "like" in email... very good idea. 2011/1/10 Uri Even-Chen > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:35, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > hi, > > > > in the school of my son they are interested in getting some 1 hour long > > presentations from parents about various interesting subject. > > > > I c

Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread Uri Even-Chen
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:35, Gabor Szabo wrote: > hi, > > in the school of my son they are interested in getting some 1 hour long > presentations from parents about various interesting subject. > > I could talk hours and days about Linux and Open Source in general > but I wonder what do you thin

Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread Mordecha Behar
I'd say maybe to stress the idea of customization. Since the source is open, you can make it do whatever you want. Kids (especially teenagers) are really into stamping their own personal mark on the world around them. With open source software (and the skills) they can do that. Then of course there

Re: What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread amichay p. k.
hi, i think that you should try to show them the "cool" factor of linux. you can show them how to boot there computer with linux live-cd, and maybe give them a few ubuntu live-cd's. you can also show them the games in Linux, and tell them that they can download many games for free and easily. i k

What to tell 13 year old kids about Linux and Open Source?

2011-01-09 Thread Gabor Szabo
hi, in the school of my son they are interested in getting some 1 hour long presentations from parents about various interesting subject. I could talk hours and days about Linux and Open Source in general but I wonder what do you think. What would be interesting to 13 year old kids? I am not sur

Embedded Linux Fast Boot: Only 560 milliseconds from reset to shell

2011-01-09 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
Shalom, I achieved embedded Linux boot in 560 ms (about a half of a second) on TI DM365 (ARM 300 MHz) with NAND flash. Boot log with timestamps Logging starts at 20 ms from reset. 0.000 0.000: DM36x initialization passed! 0.000 0.000: Optimized TI UBL 1.50 http://www.MakeLinux.com/emb/fastboot 0