... gain on the desktop then every Linux user that has children should teach all there children to use Linux and only Linux, Micro$oft should not enter these children's lives while they are at home. Your children should have there own Linux box and if they break it they should be taught that they should try to fix it first before they come to you for help, that breaking it is part of the learning experience and that it is ok to break it. When your children ask you for help with there Linux box you should not hold there hand and do the task at hand for them you should set by there side and guild them only when they are severally lost. If every Linux user did this I believe that we could get Linux into the 'Mainstream' because our children would be the ones running the networks of tomorrow, writing the programs of tomorrow, and running the companies of tomorrow and Linux is what they would be familiar with not M$. One of the other things that we would have to do is convince our local public schools that they should teach Linux in the classroom, I know my local public schools do in a limited fashion already, and my local Community College does to.
This reminds me of my first PC.
My Dad gave it to me. I don't know the exact year, but it was still a pretty current 286, with VGA graphics, two floppy drives, 50 spacious megs of hard drive, and a printer. All mine to do with as I pleased, on one condition.
I wasn't allowed to ask him how to run it, or call him when I broke it. If something happened to it, I had to fix it myself.
It turned out to be a great learning experience. I got me a couple DOS manuals and learned the ins and outs of setting up a menu based DOS machine.
I have a three year old, and I'll be giving her a computer in a few years. It'll have Linux on it, and I hope she learns as much as I did.
