[Linux Education]: Linux Installs and Children...

[Colin McGregor]

On 12/11/09, Maureen E.Thornton <maureen-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The last thing we would want to do is to intimidate people!  That even
> intimidates me!!!!
> Maureen

Okay, so tread softly on the stuff with 5 and 6 year old children, but
I will be happy to let folks know that this stuff is "Easy baceasy!"
:-) .

Colin.

> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 08:53 -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
>> Ran across the following story about a 5 year old girl attempting to
>> do an Ubuntu Linux install.
>>
>> http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/88/the-un-scary-screwdriver
>>
>> As it turned out she couldn't do it on her own, at points she needed
>> the help of her older brother, brother being 6 years old...
>>
>> From time to time I do introductory talks on Linux, and the above is a
>> great story, question is do I tell adults that I am attempting to get
>> them to the level of what two sub-7 year old children can do  :-)  ?
>>
>>
>> Colin McGregor
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