Dark Lord Seth's Journal: Showing new possibilities...

Well, not very important really, but a nice little something to add in here because this IS a site focussed on Linux after all. Anyways, recently I downloaded Knoppix and took it to college with me, crammed it into a Dell computer they got over there and started messing around with it. A bunch of people became interested and I happily burned a few more Knoppix CDs for em. They got copied some more and at least 10 people in my class now have Knoppix which the use or not. It's more because of the fact they realize that there is an alternative, it's up to them to decide which is better. A few weeks later they started with Unix classes, starting with the very basics such as telnet sessions, simple commands like ls, free, pwd, the absolute basics. Because some of them have liked Knoppix so far, they embraced the installation of Mandrake we got shoved at us (Mandrake 9.0... Not the best choice, I find it a rather bad Mandrake release tbh) and now I'm seeing people using and exploring Linux, both as desktop (yuck) and as server. Perhaps they aren't going to keep on Linux, perhaps they'll keep focussed on Windows even for server tasks... But it feels kinda good to have let people know that there is an alternative at least. That, and it's the best I can do for OSS because I still suck at coding :\

And yes, I'm thinking about using OpenDarwin and some BSD to test what they are up to. Heard remarkeable things about BeOS as well, but this comp ran out of partitions to install OSes on and to give people stuff before trying it out myself so I can't help them looks rather amateurish...