Girl drops out of school over Ubuntu

[dasaaa]

aslında eğlenceye koymak lazımdı..

said:

- After receiving her new Dell notebook, a young female student at Madison Area Technical College (MATC) in Wisconsin realized it contained Ubuntu for an operating system (a version of Linux), and not Windows. Unable to load her Verizon High-Speed Internet CD and the subsequent inability to access the Internet, coupled with no Microsoft Word (which is a MATC requirement), she dropped out of school for two semesters. The Linux community was soon up in arms.


Local TV station WKOW, channel 27 in Madison, Wisconsin, picked up on her story and broadcast it on Tuesday. Soon after, blogs and boards all over the Internet were ablaze with stories about "the girl who dropped out of college over Linux."

Yesterday, due to overwhelming response to their Tuesday story, WKOW broadcast a follow-up piece. They explained that once this story reached the Internet, their servers were inundated with angry, hateful and rude emails, along with similar phone calls to the station. Several Linux users also contacted the station basically trying to see if they could help the girl fix her problems. A representative from Dell also contacted the station to let them know they would help her sort out her order after learning she wanted to send the notebook back.

The young woman also reports being harassed on her Facebook account by several Ubuntu users who claim her story makes Ubuntu and Linux look bad.

All in all, the Internet's response to this otherwise unfortunate story has been astounding. What's most amazing is how many people were attacking the woman, stating that she was in some way to blame for the problems she had. This, rather than realizing that maybe there's some work to be done to make Linux more accessible to the non-tech users, was standard operating procedure over the story.

http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-41053-140.html

[Venator]

Word yok diye okuldan atmak, WTF?!?

[GERGE]

Bir yıllığına okulu mu bırakmış?

Bu tartışmaya gülmek dışında bir yöntem ile katılanların hepsinin biraz biraz, şey, biraz şey olduğunu söylemek istiyorum burada.

Kampüs'te bir insan evladı bile mi kızın bilgisayarına bir Vista yüklemez?

[Mr_Hand]

illegal paylaşım olmaz ööle:D vista parasını kim vericek. sdf

[dasaaa]

ne biri bedava vista mı dağıtıyormuş!!

ben de istiyorum!

nası bi haber, nasıl yorumlar.. millet ne gaza gelmiş.. çok acaip bi haber olmuş yalnız.

[Masquerade]

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Kampüs'te bir insan evladı bile mi kızın bilgisayarına bir Vista yüklemez?

Türk işte. xD

[roket adam]

Ahahah hakkaten. Bizde olsa bir sürü bilgisayar meraklısı toplanır, vista mı kursak xp mi diye tartışırdı kızın başında.

[Venator]

Ben haberin linkinde gördüğüm şu qote'a gülüyorum hala:

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If she was even remotely cute she could have enticed many a geek to help her out

Herhalde gözlüklü silivceli bir Ubuntu geek'inin ıslak rüyası "bu" olsa gerek :)

[GERGE]

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New Linux users need a source they can go to which shows them how to do in Linux that which they would've known how to do in Windows. And such a tool needs to support different versions of Windows as well. Develop that tool, integrated into desktop-level help, and you'll immediately begin to see a migration in marketshare.

Böyle bir site iyi olur. Vardır belki de?

[aquila]

kiz salakmis, haraslayan linuxcular daha da salakmis.

[nedanko]

aquila said:

kiz salakmis, haraslayan linuxcular daha da salakmis.

iste butun hikaye.

[Esh]

iyi de suc verizon un.

onlar da linux destekli program yazsinlar.. alala

[GERGE]

İyi de Verizon ile Linux çalışıyor zaten.