Well, ViaVoice tricked me too... I installed the xmms-plugin, with what you can control you mp3 playing with commands like start! stop! skip song! etc. I started a random playlist, turned on the microphone and the speakers, and sat down on my bed at the other corner of the room. Sometimes I shouted skip song or stuff like that, it worked nice. The random playing started that well-known Britney Spears: Crazy song from my musical-joke dir:). You know, it has a part when everything is silent, and Britney says: STOP! And yeah, the mp3 playing stopped:)
I would submit that maybe the cream of the crop (top percentage of teenagers) might be interested in learning all the stuff required for Linux (and would consider that lots of fun), but most teenagers using computers are more interested in the games. And the games come (for the most part) in Windows 95.
Well, in my high school, we learn Linux in regular lessons... I was quite amazed when I heared the idea of my teacher, but I was happy to hear it....(I've been using Linux for 2 years yet) since it's the first year - and the first month:) - of this, I can't really tell how will it go on... maybe Linux is really not for typical gamer teenagers, so most of them will find these lessons unuseful and boring, but a lot of them show real interest and I've already been asked for 5 Linux CD-s...:)
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Well, ViaVoice tricked me too... I installed the xmms-plugin, with what you can control you mp3 playing with commands like start! stop! skip song! etc. I started a random playlist, turned on the microphone and the speakers, and sat down on my bed at the other corner of the room. Sometimes I shouted skip song or stuff like that, it worked nice. The random playing started that well-known Britney Spears: Crazy song from my musical-joke dir :). You know, it has a part when everything is silent, and Britney says: STOP! And yeah, the mp3 playing stopped :)
I would submit that maybe the cream of the crop (top percentage of teenagers) might be interested in learning all the stuff required for Linux (and would consider that lots of fun), but most teenagers using computers are more interested in the games. And the games come (for the most part) in Windows 95.
:) - of this, I can't really tell how will it go on... maybe Linux is really not for typical gamer teenagers, so most of them will find these lessons unuseful and boring, but a lot of them show real interest and I've already been asked for 5 Linux CD-s... :)
Well, in my high school, we learn Linux in regular lessons... I was quite amazed when I heared the idea of my teacher, but I was happy to hear it....(I've been using Linux for 2 years yet) since it's the first year - and the first month