From: Vesa-Pekka Palmu (vessu@dlc.fi)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 18:04:51 CEST
> > >The terminal will be used for entertainment, In a childrens hospital, this is why windows is totally out of
> > question, as the configs would get messed in about 15 minutes by little "computer experts". So as the
> > computer woun't be containing any personal data, there is no need for separate logins for users. The plan is to
> > create a static system that woun't be destroyed by people unpluggin the computer when it is running etc.
> >
> > @Entertainment in Linux? Are you joking? I can see why you don't want to run windows, but I was talking to a
> > technician at a local school the other day - and all their machines run windows, with a linux partition which is a
> > mirror of the windows partition how it should be with everything correctly setup.
> > Every time a student does something wrong, the techncians just boot into linux as root - and copy the files
> > back. Within 15 minutes they can have a whole classroom back up and running.
> > This is especcially effective as all student work is stored on a network server, and modern PC's all come with
> > hard drives which are too big for every day use.
> >
>
> I for one do not see a problem with having entertainment in Linux.
> Why really run windows on your machines? Are you no fed up of Windows as
> yet? For sure windows could be good for games, but I still think there are
> many games in Linux that many have not come across as yet unlike windows.
>
> A grand alternative to all this is to actually get a Sony Playstation,
> Nintendo game boy or Microsoft Xbox (not necessary :) ). Since they were
> designed for games in particular.
The place where the computer is going to be placed has also some
nindendos and playstations, the computer is mainly used for
drawing, playing solitaires and other nice old arcade games. And I
thing that considering the target group linux has just the right kind
of games, koules, various card games, a super nindendo emulator
(tthat alone is enough, but more is metter [not in every case
though....])
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Vesa-Pekka Palmu AKA Depili
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