At 01:47 AM 11/14/01 -0500, you wrote: >IMHO, Linux will never become a very formidable threat to M$ until >computer newbies start talking about how easy it is to learn to use. > >I certainly will appreciate any advice I can get on this matter. > >All the best, > >Sam Heywood
A noble effort. Would that I had some such hero :-) Anyway... I do know that the newer distros out there have some wickedly simple setups and interfaces. If you set up a remote telnet for yourself to go in and log on, you could do easy maintenance from home till/if she learned it herself. Windows is harder to set that up. Corel has a lovely cd out that not only has the linux and Xsystems stuff going on, but also their worperfect suite. It's of course also free to download. Downside is it's not for a survPC methinks. I cannot think of any that are smooth on a p100 so that a newbie could flow into it. If you find one, I'd like to know because I could put it on a box I have here at home. At any rate, check out the corel, I may be wrong, you may have the skill to remedy it if not. http://linux.corel.com/ Corel, BTW is a lovely Canadian company competing in some ways direct with M$ and trying hard to make a go of it. -- For a country to be free it's citizens must have a way to defy unjust laws. The new electronic snooping devices are a step in the direction of fascism. Consequently I am appending the following Carnivore Confusion noise to all outgoing email: "Allah; America; Anthrax; arms; bomb; border; capitalist; communicate; customs; death; delivery; economic; imperialist; jihad; plane; PGP; rendevous; trucks; war; weapons; U.S.A.; end transmission
