[CLUE-Tech] Linux for mom

[Joe Linux]

How do you get RH9 with Ximian?  Based on what you are saying, I might 
try RH9 again.  I have the RH9 download edition, but is that enough. or 
do I have to buy something more?  

Kirk Rafferty wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:45:10PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
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>>Ever thought of just getting her DSL or a cable modem? They're not that
>>much more expensive, and no dialing is necessary... 
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>DSL isn't available in their area, and she's on the internet so little
>that it would be hard to justify the cost of cable.  She surfs and checks
>email about 1-2 times a week.  Occasionally, she does a little typing in
>Open Office to keep her typing skills up.  Otherwise, the computer is
>pretty much unused.
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>>If that's not doable, you might also want to look at SuSE with Ximian
>>GNOME... it's about as user-friendly as a desktop gets. I don't
>>recommend Red Hat 9, I've had a few problems with it (notably, the
>>updater has died on me, and I can no longer get system updates using
>>it... and for some reason, Adobe Acrobat doesn't want to work...), but
>>SuSE is pretty solid. 
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>I mentioned in another post that I looked at a friend's RH9 with Ximian
>Desktop 2 yesterday, and came away really impressed.  It's definitely a
>desktop she could use, despite what I said about not wanting to switch her
>from KDE.  The only thing I couldn't really try out was the dialup
>interface, since he's got DSL.
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>The obvious question here is "what does *she* want?"  I think what I'm going
>to do is setup and old machine to tri-boot Mandrake, RH9 with Ximian (I
>might do SuSE [35,000 Germans can't be wrong, huh?], but that requires
>downloading it, whereas I have the RH9 CDs already), and Libranet.  She
>may not have the patience for a full-blown usability study, but she may
>prefer one over the other.  I'll report the results back here, in case
>anyone is interested.
>
>-k
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