> Attaining your goal will be tied entirely to who your father is when it > comes to assessing the system. Is he interested in what you propose, > or is this a project of your own? If he is _interested_ then wm's > which deviate more from a Windows perspective will not be as much of an > issue, especially if he's willing to listen to the Knowledgable One > (you ;-) patiently walk through a brief working tour of it.
The only "demand" he has for participating in this project is that he can have a machine where he can write/read his text-documents (therfore OpenOffice) and mail. Besides that I am free to choose linux-dist and wm. I belive his will to try and learn linux is there so that shouldn't be a problem. > Blackbox/fluxbox come to my mind as very easy to use wm's which appear > to be fairly light. Along with simple features such as window shading, > multiple desktops, and window resizing/moving using the alt keys, an > interested person could quickly see some nice things about being > different. > > You mention scientific writing. What type? I personally use LyX for > all my work (I teach chemistry at a community college) and find it does > all I want, with LaTeX as its backbone. The only time I ever need > OO.org is to allow me to see/print out .doc files from admin types at > school who don't understand/care about more universal forms such as pdf > files. Today he uses 'Scientific Notebook', I'm not sure excactly what that program does. He's a teacher in what we call "furter going school" (it sound pretty stupid when I translate it directly) (its the 11. -> 12. year of school for the young of norway). I will tell him to look up LyX, maby the right thing. > On your machine the primary holdup to a system such as this would be > memory--the likes of which cost about a $1/stick at our local > "re-compute" store. I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a total of 128+16=144MB RAM. Don't you think that is enough for OO.org and WM when he's prepared for a slow machine? > If he likes what he sees then maybe a hardware upgrade would happen > automagically... ;) I won't give up untill that happens, so its just a matter of time. The more open-source and the less Microsoft, the better!!!! > HTH, > > Kenward Fun to here from all of you guys, best wishes from Vegard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
