On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:37 PM, ant <[email protected]> wrote: > As I mentioned last time (16 Aug 2011) I live near Blenheim, but I have > friends and rellies in CHC. This is a request on behalf of another one, > Peter. > > He had his (small) business red-zoned some time ago, along with his (Win XP) > accounts computer and the Suse 9.1 machine that I set up for him to do emails > and web browsing. He was using Woosh for broadband. > He is not at all computer-literate, so he didn't have any Windows > preconceptions - the receptionist used the XP machine. He was making some > progress using the linux machine, and I was going to come down and update it > to a more recent version. > Then various quakes struck. He's not used either computer for a year - > couldn't get them out of the building for six months. He got a standard > laptop so he could use it at home with a new set of Woosh gear, but he's > never been able to get that going with Windows. > He is perfectly happy to use linux, but I don't think I can support him from > here, given the circumstances. > What he needs is someone (or some organisation) to install (say) Ubuntu or > Mint on the laptop and get him connected via the Woosh gear (which is a > router, so no ppp needed) so he can collect and send emails and use the web. > Dual-boot would be good because he does need to play (non-commercial) DVDs on > it and it would need to be proven that that can be done with linux.
You have been able to play DVD's in linux for as long as I can remember. Please stop posting the same thing multiple times. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
