I'm setting up a Linux system for a relative, who is a fairly naive computer user (hey!, at least there's not too much MS-culture to undo).
I will be doing remote admin, in fact it will look a lot like George Geller's "Eola" system from the last Kplug meeting -- Linux Mint (for the codecs), and all. Primary usage will be low-volume email, websurfing and watching NASA-like videos over DSL 1.5Mbps (I think). Not much else, actually. Maybe eventually graduating to photo-editing and a little document writing .. who knows? One thought I had was to add a small emergency boot partition (/EBP/) in case the main system got really botched up. Q1: is that worth it? (Failure is not an end-of-the-world situation, merely annoying). Q2: if so, what should I use for the EBP? Knoppix? DSL? Ubuntu? -what- Maybe this is an InstallFest project? The box is built, maybe I'll just bring it for anybody to poke at. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
