Ximian, excellent desktop. And it's very intuitive. The default install has a word processor (abiword), a spreadsheet (gnumeric), an e-mail program (evolution), and a browser (mozilla). Everything is available from the drop down menu up top, and the desktop looks nice and is extremely customizeable.
I would assume that ximian is all open source, judging from their use of gnome as opposed to kde. I may be wrong though. That's just my 2 cents on the intuitive desktop thing. On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 15:41, Mnemonic wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I checked out http://rute.sourceforge.net. As I was looking around I started > to think about an individual with whom I work. He is not willing to give > Linux a try because he says he does not want to face another steep learning > curve. Considering this, I think that what has been suggested is exactly > what I want, but not necessarily what everyone wants. That is, most people > want to turn on their computers and have them function at such a level that > operation is intuitive. I do not think they want to spend an inordinate > amount of time learning how to use their expensive box of metal and plastic. > > Let's say that I am Joe General Public...if my computer is not broken and I > am able to do everything I need to do with it, why in the world would I want > to try something like an alternate operating system. What the heck is an > operating system? How do I even find out that such an animal exists? > Education/awareness is paramount to the success of this project. > > - -K > > On Friday 19 July 2002 14:15, you wrote: > > I still think that it would be a huge disservice to the users to give > > them a hacked, unsupported outside of BRLUG distribution of Linux. > > Giving out a Debian or Red Hat or Mandrake would leave open their > > options for support. CDs are cheap. Trying to shoehorn a bunch of mixed > > software wouldn't have any benefit, unless you abandon the idea of > > creating a custom distribution and offer an "add-on" CD of software that > > the distribution doesn't currently have, such as OpenOffice, nVidia > > drivers (or scripts to obtain, build, and install them if licensing > > doesn't permit), and books in electronic format. > > > > One other avenue to consider would be the possibility to have the Rute ( > > http://rute.sf.net ) printed and donated to libraries. Having it done at > > Kinkos might be prohibitively expensive, but does anyone have ties to > > publishers or printing companies that can possibly get this done at a > > reasonable rate? > > > > -Tim > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9OHlqUoGHsPHkAUoRAsS1AJ95u069d31+9GUxDJv9Rc/ra5MzOQCeNn4Z > ObvWDXxlrGcaDbmqARqdGlI= > =NSrU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
