[Nottingham] Linux for the masses

[Darren Fuller]

danny wrote:

>On Monday 12 Jan 2004 9:37 pm, Darren Fuller wrote:
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>>Shaun Turner - Footwerkpacific Limited wrote:
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>>>Hi all!
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>>>Happy New Year and all that.
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>>>I am trying to encourage more people to use Linux and OpenOffice etc. (as
>>>we all are I am sure!) and I was wondering if any of you have written a
>>>"What is this Linux thing and how does it al work" type documents in
>>>plain non-technical language as we would like to put some documents about
>>>Linux on a new website we have set up.
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>>>Sorry if this is kind of non-technical.
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>>>I'll be at the RevolutionOS shindig if anyone wants to chat about it.
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>>>Regards
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>>>Shaun
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>>Just a thought but maybe something like that might be useful to have to
>>hand any way, I know I'mtrying to talk my company back into GNU/Linux at
>>the moment but am having a hard time trying to explain it to the
>>decision makers and get the networking guys to beleive that it is
>>supported, currently they think that if you install GNU/Linux then you
>>are on your own!!!
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>>Daz
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>Hi all, i just joined LUG a few days ago...
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>If anyone does have/make a document like this i would find it very usefull as 
>i have just started a group that gets school kids (im one myself) into 
>advanced computing and, in the end, linux. (Ive allready got one person using 
>it :) ) A document like that would be fantsatic.
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Okay, I found this on the net, haven't had to much of a chance to go 
through it yet but I figure it's as good a place as any to start.

http://www.seul.org/docs/whylinux.html

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