[OLPC-devel] Re: Boot tasks -- the iPAQ way

[Jordan Crouse]

On 20/07/06 11:16 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Jordan,
> 
> Some history may be useful: Joshua Wise was a significant contributor to
> Linux on iPAQ at age 12, before he started high school. (Joshua, your
> ears should start burning...).  He taught me to not under-estimate what
> kids can do....

Point taken. :)

I guess my reasoning wasn't so much that kids *can't* handle a shell, more that
they shouldn't need to if they don't want to.  But your argument is 
valid - enough to convince me that we shouldn't get rid of /bin/ash quite
yet.

Jordan