Switching From Windows To Linux In 3 Easy Steps (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Shawn Powers advocates switching friends to Linux one application at a time. "It's painless for a person to try open source applications in Windows. The beauty is that open source apps speak for themselves, and tend to work amazingly well, "selling" themselves without much convincing required." Some cross-platform, open source applications to get people started are Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Abiword, VLC, Pidgin, Stellarium and Songbird.

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Dual boot?

Posted Sep 9, 2008 22:15 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] (1 responses)

Dual boot, though? Isn't that something your Dad did back when his Linux box had 16MB of RAM, there was no virtualization for Linux, and he walked to school in the snow uphill both ways?

Dual boot?

Posted Sep 9, 2008 23:03 UTC (Tue) by freemars (subscriber, #4235) [Link]

> there was no virtualization for Linux, and he walked to school
> in the snow uphill both ways?

Way off topic, but:
http://www.stevemacdonald.org/lyrics/wiwab.html

Switching From Windows To Linux In 3 Easy Steps (Linux Journal)

Posted Sep 10, 2008 11:27 UTC (Wed) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link]

I prefer to switch people to open source applications - once they are on Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, etc, switching the underlying OS is much less of an issue, particularly if they are still getting viruses and spyware (no malware protection is proof against kids who just like downloading and installing trojans, but at least on Linux you can remove sudo privileges and mount /home as noexec etc).

Switching From Windows To Linux In 3 Easy Steps (Linux Journal)

Posted Sep 25, 2008 3:28 UTC (Thu) by bigfuzz (guest, #54241) [Link]

There is a very good CD compilation of FOSS for windows(tm) PCs.

find it by googling for " ttcs "

b fuzz