2003-09-04 -+- Gregor Waluga -+- -+- Hi,

good article! I can support your cunclusion! I installed a KDE desktop on my sister's machine and she loves that! Some programs she could miss, I simply emulated in wine. Now she is happy, with her PC. Windows? What for!? ;-)
And the best fact: She cannot destroy the machine!!!!
OK, someone has to administer this, because for her it is a little bit difiicult...

Linux' concept is very cool.

Greetings
Gregor -+- 134.93.183.238 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 2003-09-04 -+- clasqm -+- clasqm@mweb.co.za -+- If your mom is anything like mine, the thing that will "hook" her on computers for life will not be a word processor or web browser but Solitaire!

Go ahead, install pysol and let us know what happens. <g>
-+- 196.30.245.149 = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030514 Debian/1.3.1.x.1-2 2003-09-08 -+- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -+- guilhem.bonnefille@laposte.net -+- I can also support the conclusion.

In my case, the computer is share between my mother and my brother. The great functionnalities are:
- a better slow hardware management,
- the lack of viruses,
- the transparent mail fetching for all users (fetchmail is great).

But I encounter a problem with the last point. The F.A.Q. is: "how can I decided all mails are fetched? There is no progress bar."

So, if anyone have an "end-user" solution (like a little GTK appli), please e-mail me. -+- 132.149.107.66 = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 2003-09-11 -+- cyprien -+- -+- "If Mom would tell me the IP address of her computer then I could remotely log in and configure things or install software."
you can use a dynamic dns like dyndns.org to avoid it... and put a small script like addns :
http://www.funtaff.com/software/addns.pl/ -+- 81.53.247.239 = Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux) 2003-09-15 -+- observer367 -+- -+- Good article.
The comment about double-click is something that the whole computer industry should have learned 20 years ago. The only reason we have been stuck with this mistake for so long is that Apple made it, and of course, everybody "knows" that Apple's user interface is the best. -+- 193.134.254.145 = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.0 (NSEUPD V43 25.08.2003) 2003-09-24 -+- Wulf Forrester-Barker -+- -+- A very good example of what can be done - the only limiting factor is having a competent system administrator to hand and, to an extent, having a recipient of the service who doesn't expect to be able to go and buy lots of new programs to kludge up the machine!

Wulf
-+- 195.107.47.196 = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 2003-09-29 -+- Christoph Fritz -+- -+- Great Article!
I configured a really easy desktop with icewm. No taskbar, no minimize...
The only thing is a list of programs the user can start. It's directly configured for the secial needs.
The Computer isn't the fastest, so I think about installing Firebird.
-+- 80.133.222.98 = unknown_agent 2003-10-22 -+- guardian -+- weenta@hotmail.com -+- As much as I prefer Linux (and that's shy I set my mom up on it as well :), saying it couldn't be done with windows is not correct. It could have easily been done with policies (which is what I did on my mom's old pc). -+- 170.252.80.2 = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.21 [en]