The toman diaries

Learning how to compute

lørdag, april 10, 2004

I just read an article on newsforge where a sysadmin is telling the story of his three year old grand-daughter learning linux.

It was a fun read, not only because I like to hear success-stories about Linux, but also becuse it reminded me of my first steps on my brothers first computer, a commodore 128 (I never got one myself). While I don't remember how I started things, how I saved things, or how I did almost anything, I remember how I was so facinated that I could do something, I could make something (draw houses, boats and cars at that time).

This is what the story above is about, a three-year old learning how to draw images and play games. On Suse Linux 9.0.

So who is growing up, Linux or the kid?