[NCLUG] Another good day

[David Braley]

Just wanted to share with the group my short story of converting another 
person to Linux.

A friend of mine called me on Saturday asking if I could help her with a 
used laptop that she had gotten (she actually got it for free). After 
she arrived, I set it on by bench, booted it up to a horribly infected 
windblows 2000 OS, and watched it struggle to do anything. It would take 
almost 5 minutes to start up the file explorer because of all the "who 
knows what" running in the background.

So after discovering that she only had a 700 mhz Pentium III processor 
with 256 megs of ram, I started into my Linux sales pitch. After very 
little convincing, she was game and I started to wipe the hard drive 
clean as I continued my spiel about the virtues of Linux on older hardware.

About 1 hour and 40 minutes later, I had an Xbuntu system up and running 
on the old machine. The laptop came with a wireless card that was 
natively supported and OpenOffice was so easy for her to use, it seemed 
like she had always used it.

She left with a fully functional laptop. She can surf the web, email her 
friends, use her digital camera, and even work from home on the 
documents she creates on the windows machine at work.

One down, one billion to go.......

I had a good day. ;-)

David