One more vote for mint, however she will need help with whatever system it gets installed, linux or not.
My mom has an esier time with ubuntu netbook remix then xp. Matthias Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >Centos is a five CD set but that shouldn't matter since mint and Ubuntu do >their best and cram it all on one CD. Yes you can make Ubuntu look like XP, >my point with mint is you don't have to change it...it already looks like XP >including having a control panel which is not as simple as removing a panel >in Ubuntu. > >Matthias Johnson > >On Jul 30, 2010 3:24 PM, "Mark Wallace" <[email protected]> >wrote: > >I would put Windows 98SE in it because you don't need a key to install >it in a new machine. > >It is a question of time before she shoots herself in the foot With >Ubuntu. Have her store all of her data on a flash drive. > >If you did go with Ubuntu, just set her up in a user account that can't >add and remove packages, and disable things like checking for upgrades >when he is away. > >She might not get it to go online at all. Besides, Linux is a broadband >system and it might be hard to find a distro that still has a five cd >set. You might find one in the third world. > >There are people who who put a pirated copy of Windows in it. Being as >she is going to be doing dial up, she won't install the upgrades anyway. >But that's illegal (No kidding!) Remember who didn't tell you to do >that. > >You can configure Linux to look like Windows. This laptop is virtually >indistinguishable from Windows because my wife isn't computer literate. >You can reduce the multiple destops to one, eliminae the top taskbar, >install a theme like Mista, etc. > > > > >On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:19 -0400, Phil M Perry wrote: >> My father is trying to set up an old PC ... >-- >Robert Mark Wallace >60 Delaware Road >Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 >Telephone: (845) 566-0586 > >Visit my Blog, Mark Wallace Following Christ, at > > >> http://markwallacefollowingchrist.blogspot.com/ > >> > >_______________________________________________ >Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group ... > >_______________________________________________ >Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > >Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Aug 4 - Samba > Sep 1 - BOINC > Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions
