Posted on 02/03/2005 11:33:36 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
A pint-sized linux guru who installed her first Debian server before her tenth birthday is to speak at this year's linux.conf.au
Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Garbee may not know as much about Linux as her father Bdale Garbee, Linux CTO for HP and former Debian Project Leader, but that won't stop her from presenting at linux.conf.au 2005.
Elizabeth, who has had a computer since she turned two, has been running Debian since the time she was nine. According to her bio on the conference speaker’s list, her installation of Debian GNU/Linux on a server before she had reached 10 years of age "proves that installing Debian really isn't very hard", although it should be noted that "Dad is around to answer questions" if trouble hits.
Elizabeth will be speaking on "Extending Tuxracer – Learning by Playing", a seminar which Chair of the 2005 organising committee Steven Handley has said will revolve around making modifications to Tuxracer (a popular open source game involving Linux’s cuddly mascot) with the aim of making the game more fun. Ex-Debian Project Leader and dad Bdale will also present at the conference.
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The world's first Trillionaire in the making!
Lol, maybe, if Debian wasn't open source and free...
Isn't that what's called a computer nerd?
Our son learned Linux on his own while in computer science (a few years back) and got a job based on his knowledge of Linux/Unix. He does very well for his family.
>>The world's first Trillionaire in the making!
Hopefully this one'll marry a Republican! ...oh wait!
Linux info (kinda) ping
That's so cute!
I started with Debian, too!
But I was a *little* bit older than nine years old (try 20)
Oh, come on. She may just be the second billionaire that looks like a 13-yo girl.
No, No, No, haven't you heard? According to the anti open source people, Linux is pure communism and is also attacking our precious bodily fluids so she will be a budding Stalin...
tux-racer is a sucky game - linux doesn't seem to have any good games
What the hell kind of name is "Bdale"? Is that a typo?
And acts like one. Hey, at least SHE has an excuse.
Last time I saw the name Bdale Garbee when in 1985 when he was contributing to the e-mail client package in Phil Karn's NOS TCP/IP package on DOS. Looks like another ham radio/computer science techie has achieved some success in life.
BTTT
BAH! Everyone knows Slackware >>> Debian :P
Don't mind that Debian install I have on my laptop though ;)
Foolish parents give a two year old a compter..
No kidding. My daughter crashed Windows 98 when she was only about four months old.
I just think that young kids (say less than 10) have little to gain from computers. Take me, I have aweful spelling/ grammer/ handwriting and when I was in grade school teachers blew it off as 'thats what computers are for'. My kid will not use a computer before the age of eight, and even then the total focus will be on real books, and long math..
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