Niall O Broin wrote:
> [snip]
>> So, I think I'll make her my Aunt Tilly experiment. I'm not going to
> ask her to install Linux, but she is going to use it. She is a
> retired secondary school teacher, so is not exactly clueless but as
> far as computers are concerned she is completely clueless.
>> [snip]
After someone disabled the firewall on my family's PC (PII/350) and the
thing got riddled I installed Mandrake 10 - mainly out of frustration at
repeatedly fixing Windows. Most of the hardware was a snap to set up -
GeForce 2, Soundblaster AudioPCI and some other common bits and pieces.
As you may have guessed, the modem was an issue. The one supplied was
Conexant and after getting my hands on the last free Linuxant driver,
looking up some charts and performing a dark rite or two we were good to
go - with a 2.4 kernel though. I hope to sort that soon with a cheapo
serial modem - the machine could do with the performance enhancements of
2.6.
KDE 3.2 performs well enough and a few icons on the desktop for the
likes of KPPP, Mozilla, K3B, OpenOffice Writer, "My Documents" (~/) and
some others meant that everyone could sit down and know how to get
started. The first one to use the machine was my sister. The fact that I
didn't hear anything about this until I asked how it was all going means
operation successful... I think. No output indicates success, right? :)
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