On 09/02/2008, Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a couple of pints), anyway I mentioned slashdot.org as a website for her > to find some anti-microsoft sentiment
No! Slashdot is great but I'm not sure it should serve as a positive advertisement for Linux, most of the time it just seems to be school/college kids having an argument ;) > Does anyone have any ideas of information we could pass on (she seemed > to be woefully lacking in information about Linux and was eagerly > writing everything I said down in her notebook, even though I don't know > that much myself)? It might be worth educating her about free software too. I noticed that in the recent BBC interview with Bill Gates[1] he deliberately bastardised the term to mean software-with-no-cost and in doing so ended up quietly insulting Linux and the whole free software movement. For other 'alternative' views of MS Windows, see [2] and [3]. Have you given your friend an Ubuntu live cd yet? Might be worth doing some research first if possible to make sure it will work out-of-the-box with her machine, but there's nothing like actually trying something out to get a real understanding of it. Finally, have you mentioned the eeePC to her? It sounds like it's going to be the year of the UMPC and linux along with it ;) [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7174333.stm [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6319845.stm [3] http://badvista.fsf.org/freesoftwarefreesociety/free-software-free-society/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
