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A Babe in Tuxland

Posted by michael on from the baby's-first-apt-get-dist-upgrade dept.

Joe Barr writes "This is the kind of story that WagEd and MS would love to see in one of their astroturf campaigns. But this story is real grassroots, with a real Sysadmin writing it and a real granddaughter as the babe using Linux. A sweet tale, with tips on Linux for kids." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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  1. To summarize by bonch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When translated, your post reads:

    "Uh, I disagree with you, so you're automatically a troll! I'm headed over to someone's house to fix a Windows printer, so that one instance invalidates the 95% of the time that drivers automatically work under Windows, and somehow also invalidates that a lot of printers almost never work under Linux.

    Oh, and Windows XP doesn't 'feel' right. I'm actually going to offer this as some sort of proof of my argument! I'll vaguely claim it eats itself alive!

    You troll. How dare you point out the obvious--Windows is easier to configure than Linux!"