[ILUG] My Aunt Tilly

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Aidan Delaney <adelaney at cs.may.ie>
  | Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:41:02 +0100
  |
  | On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 00:37 +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
  | > I'm more or less settled on SuSE 9.1 as the distribution, for the
  | > simple reason that I use it in a number of places, and I have media
  | > available. I'm open to persuasion as to a better distribution but to be
  | > honest, there'd have to be a pretty compelling reason. After all, this
  | > PC is going to run Mozilla (for web and email) and Open Office, and
  | > that is it - it hardly matters what distribution I use.
  | 
  | I don't know much about SuSE.  Here are some general pointers on
  | migrating Windows users (SuSE may fix some of these).

 I use SUSE 9.1 (Pro) at home, and so have a few comments here....

  | * Download flash etc... for her

 if it aint't broke don't fix it.  (nothing to do with SUSE.)

  | * Use firefox (even epiphany or konqueror) instead of full Moz, they're
  |   much niftier

 Mozilla (and presumably Firefox) have much more complete support
 for all the weirdo nonsense/formats out there than Konqueror or
 Opera (no idea about Epiphany (never heard of it!) --- but I note
 the Epiphany on my SUSE 9.1 system does not have much control over
 anything (e.g., poor privacy controls) and so may not be a good
 choice?).  I myself use Opera, but resort to Mozilla/Firefox (or
 sometimes Konqueror) on the odd site Opera cannot handle.  all of
 these browsers (and more!) are included in the SUSE 9.1 Pro distro;
 I have no idea about the Personal distro.
 ( N.b., the SUSE 9.1 Personal is on this month's LFX cover DVD
        (but you need to burn a CD?). )

  | * In Windows when connecting to the internet, one just clicks on IE.
  |   Under Gnome/KDE one has to Gnome PPP/KPP and then click on the browser.
  |   This should be well explained (big sheet of instructions on the wall) to
  |   users.  This is stupid behaviour on Linux, but would probably take too
  |   much work to fix.

 whilst I do not use dial-on-demand (I use diald(8) dial-on-request),
 this was not true in SuSE 9.1 and is not true in SUSE 9.1 --- KPPPD
 (at least) comes "out of the box" (AFAICR) set up ready to do dial-
 on-demand.  and at least in 9.1, it seemed to work (I had problems
 in 7.3).  but I suspect yer kiloage will vary?

  | Good luck with the modem.  I've often just dumped Winmodems and taken
  | old internal hardware modems out of the skip.

 yes.  IMHO, this will be yer biggest problem (with SUSE 9.1),
 unless, as someone said, the Aunt likes to frag triangles.

cheers!
	-blf-

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