[ale] Distro for Mom?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Aug 5 16:59:49 EDT 2004


Vincent Fox wrote:
> Any distro under the hood is fine, worried about the paint job.
> 
> I guess one of my bigger unstated points is one that either has:
> 
> 1) Simplified interface already available
> 2) Easiest to configure as such
> 
> I can't have your average cluttered KDE or Gnome desktop. Mom is 
> about 70 and I had enough trouble with tech support by phone
> (they live 5 hours away) as it was. 

You can modify the menus, or simply removed them altogether.  The way my 
mother-in-law is setup, everything she needs is an icon on the desktop. 
  Multiple icons for different websites.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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