User Feedback :: Teenagers

Hi, I am brand new to this forum and actually pretty new to linux all together. I work at a school as librarian/information officer and I frequently get asked about computers by the kids. There is a group of lads very keen on trying Linux, I suggested Knoppix and one of them tried it, but DSL of course is even more spectacular, so I was wondering if any of you have experience with first time linux users that are pretty low on general computerknowledge?

I have a NFP that is refurbishing old PC's and giving them to needy kids. I'm using a custom remaster of Knoppix that is based off of DSL and Feather. I am jsut started to distribute and the feedback has been very good so far. It looks like I will be distributing close to a dozen PC's next week. If you want to PM me, we can discuss in detail if you like.

Chris

My only hesitation on giving DSL to someone as a first exposure to Linux is the Fluxbox desktop is rather different to the Windows desktop. If you think they could cope with not clicking in the bottom left hand corner to start programs then I would highly recommend DSL as one of the very best distributions to learn Linux from. If you don't think they could cope with that then Slax (www.slax.org) would be my suggestion as the next best thing to DSL. At almost 200mb it is nearly 4 times the download size of DSL but it is way smaller than the 700mb Knoppix download.

I have had my teenage sons "introduce" many of their friends
to DSL thru school activities and ham radio ..

I've only heard praise and positive comments about it.
No one has made mention about the missing "start" button.

The only issue I've heard about was it missing the
accelerated graphics for gaming..
But for music, surfing, burning CD's, and schoolwork, it does great.

73
ke4nt

there is an icewm extenstion. It is a windowmanager like windows taskbar, startbutton, clock

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