On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:58:25 -0600, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very > little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the > moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest. > > My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something > better. Every time before I've had to go with a newbie-friendly GUI > for people who don't know computers and more importantly DON'T WANT TO > LEARN about them, I've gone with either a Gnome or KDE setup. > > In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz ..ooo. Relic. A first generation P? Stuff in as much ram as it'll take. > with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus on there > and call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to load and > another 2 minutes for the file-manager just won't cut it I'm afraid. > > At any other time, I'd suggest one of the *box variants. But with a > user with this little knowledge and this little patience, anything > that she can't just pick up and use right away simply won't cut it. So > any ideas? ..fvwm95, icewm, and a few more can be set up to look like wintendo. > (If only I could get her to learn emacs... emacs + w3m + XF86 + gnus = > perfection! :) .. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
