[CLUE-Tech] Linux for mom

[Joe Linux]

Mandrake 9.1 is pretty good, and perhaps RH 9.0 is okay too, but for 
myself, I have decided on Libranet 2.8 because it has the most bells and 
whistles for a person wanting a true user friendly personal computer system.

Kirk Rafferty wrote:

>About 3 years ago, my (now 61 year-old) mom decided it was time that she
>started learning about this internet thing.  Before then, she had only
>ever used a dumb terminal.  Shortly before she retired she was stuck with
>a Windows box.
>
>I did what any loving son would do, and set her up with a RHL 7.1 box.
>(okay, the distro may be debatable from a "loving son," but work with me
>here...:) After about 3 years, she's okay with working in KDE, but the
>dialup interface in KDE has always given her fits.  The 7.1-era dialer is
>fairly flakey for end-users, and I occasionally make the house-call to
>launch a terminal and clean PPP up.
>
>I'm thinking of upgrading her to Mandrake 9.1.  Can anyone give comment on
>how stable KPPP on Mandrake is now?  Stable may not be the right word
>here...predictable is more like it.  She gets fairly frustrated when it
>doesn't work according to her script (literally...she has written
>instructions she follows to get herself connected), and I'd like to give
>her something that doesn't require me to house-call every couple weeks.
>
>I use Gnome pretty exclusively, so I'm a little out of touch on KDE these
>days.  But she's comfortable in KDE now, and I really don't want to move
>her over to Gnome.
>
>By the way, mom is registered Linux User 321098. :)
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>-k
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