Ryan and I put together an old Pro200 PC (over-clocked to 233Mz) w/128MB of RAM and a discarded 15" monitor early last spring. We then gave the PC to a computer newbie (yes, there are still some out there). We added a modem to it and installed Mandrake on it for him. We set it up for him to use a $10/month dialup ISP and made sure he knew how to use it.
I am still receiving email from him every week or two. It has worked out great for him. I think the main thing was to help get everything installed and setup correctly, and to make sure he could use it. We had to show him a couple of time how to do everything and then watched he do it a couple times to make sure he understood. I have received less calls with questions and requests for assistance then any other newbie I ever installed Windows for. It has worked pretty flawlessly for him. It was a real rewarding Linux experience for me (and Ryan too I hope).
At 09:49 AM 11/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
what distro /setup would you recoment for the abslute linux newbie, maybee even computer unsavy.
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