How would you promote Linux to women?

r_jensen11 · 12-10-2003, 04:39 PM

Tell them it'll piss off their parents.

vincebs · 12-10-2003, 10:40 PM

If the girl is stereotypical, tell her that fat people use Windows. And that older taller richer men use Linux.

natalinasmpf · 12-11-2003, 05:42 AM

If the girl (or anyone, for that matter) is a fanatical Communist (or Socialist ie. China) you can tell her that the open source aspect is a utopic Communist element of the Linux OS.

andrewlkho · 12-11-2003, 12:29 PM

It doesn't make a difference whether they're male or female. It's more a case of do they understand computers. Besides which, you could always argue that the majority of men find a female hacker kinda sexy - see Swordfish

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trickykid · 12-11-2003, 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by ho_10
It doesn't make a difference whether they're male or female. It's more a case of do they understand computers. Besides which, you could always argue that the majority of men find a female hacker kinda sexy - see Swordfish .

Huh.. Halle Berry really didn't hack at all in the movie.. maybe something like the movie 'Hackers' with Angelina Jolie... :drool:

Hal · 12-11-2003, 02:46 PM

Damn, Hackers with Angelina Jolie got me into Linux in the first place! Once you get into the Linux world though, you just realise that most of the characters on Hackers are "script kiddies." Heh, not so cool after all.

Loving Linux though, if I could just get my modem to work, I'm using XP at the moment. lol. The XP layout doesn't seem as flash as KDE. It must be the rubbish non anti-aliased "start" button on the bottom left of the screen...

Dr. Ephemeron · 12-11-2003, 08:39 PM

Oprah uses Linux!

sxa · 12-11-2003, 09:19 PM

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you could always argue that the majority of men find a female hacker kinda sexy - see Swordfish .

I indeed find geek girls sexy, I am just waiting to meet that moderate strange logical freaky girl in a Tux Shirt and Blue Jeans, with the short dark hair and big thick black classes, with a pentacle around her neck

^^^^
My Perfect girlfriend.. she has not come yet..

2damncommon · 12-11-2003, 10:26 PM

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How would you promote Linux to women?

Somrtimes I put my latest Linux CDs in my shorts. If a gurl wuz to ask "Is that the latest Linux distro, or are you just glad to see me?", I wuld marry hur.

Neorio · 12-12-2003, 12:44 AM

My Gf's PC's laptop hard disk died... and when I tried to replace it I found that the BIOS wouldn't handle any of today's newer drives.

So I went and put Knoppix in the CD drive.
Now she uses that for the time being... although it still sucks when there's no place to save any information!

rikhen · 12-12-2003, 02:37 AM

To summarize, the dream girl should...

...be stunningly gorgeous along the lines of Halle Berry or Angelina Jolie

...be a complete geek, but with a sense of fashion and freakishness

...eat, breathe and sleep "Linux."

...be able to hack pretty much anything...?

I don't know about you, but I come across those girls all the time, really!

This could get lonely, you know....

Rikhen

natalinasmpf · 12-12-2003, 04:03 AM

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Originally posted by Neorio
My Gf's PC's laptop hard disk died... and when I tried to replace it I found that the BIOS wouldn't handle any of today's newer drives.

So I went and put Knoppix in the CD drive.
Now she uses that for the time being... although it still sucks when there's no place to save any information!

Is there anything preventing you from flashing the BIOS?

smallfish · 12-13-2003, 07:29 PM

Login using a female name and women get their own girlish desktop screen, same for the kids and same for the greatest of all men.

smallfish
linuxfan

natalinasmpf · 12-13-2003, 10:05 PM

I believe thats already built-in with KDE's themes.

Blackrose1 · 12-13-2003, 10:25 PM

treat women with respect, geek and non!
I started using linux 'cause I wanted an alternative to windows
and try not talking down to us women! take your stereotypes about women not being whatever enough to try linux and just state the facts!