[TriLUG] making Linux look like Windows XP

[jbrigman at nc.rr.com]

As Cristobal knows, Tim is correct, the required laptops at UNC are
distributed with a WinXP image. (I don't think they've gone to Vista yet...)

It's not a pretty sight: the kids go back to the IT department with
problems and they simply reinstall the image from ground zero. It's a
nuclear bomb to kill mosquitoes, but it does work.

My son at UNC-CH has suffered through four of those re-installs in two
years, usually because of virii or malware that gets on to his laptop.
He's already asked me to roll a Linux box for him to use on the network,
to avoid this problem, so he can reserve his laptop only for classwork.

JKB

----- Original Message -----
From: Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:09 am
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] making Linux look like Windows XP
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>

> On 6/11/07, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   I attended the IBM OpenSource VP's talk (Bob Sutor?) at Chapel 
> Hill a few
> > months back. The Open Source club at Chapel Hill was 
> brainstorming about how
> > to promote Open Source there. Apparently all of the students get a
> > (Windows-based) system image from some department of the school. 
> So, their
> > idea was to hand out Knoppix or portableapps type materials to 
> each student.
> > I guess the concept is most people do not even know what Open 
> Source is,
> > Linux is, OpenOffice.org is, et cetera. I guess you cannot 
> recognize freedom
> > if you've never seen it.
> 
> Yep, and if you want to help out the cause at UNC, drop me a line or
> start by lending a hand here:
> 
> http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/northamerica/ChapelHill
> 
> We could use help... and funding. If you can put us in contact with
> individuals or corporate representatives who could help bankroll our
> Software Freedom Day activities (CDs won't burn themselves, after
> all), please do email me directly.
> 
> Sorry for the derail,
> -- 
> Cristóbal M. Palmer
> administrator!!! please hope me!
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