[Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Con Kolivas
Now I've installed Mandrake for about 6 people. These people are all windows converts who are not very good with PCs. What they want and should have when they use their machines are much less than the recommended install offers, yet more than the minimum install. These people need all of KDE

Re: [Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Sim
Lesson: newbies need one fully featured window manager with configuration utilities, a web browser/email client and then they can install an office suite (eg star office, corel etc.) Everything else confuses them AND takes up unnecessary space. I agree with this - no one needs more than 1

Re: [Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"Con Kolivas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I've installed Mandrake for about 6 people. These people are all windows converts who are not very good with PCs. What they want and should have when they use their machines are much less than the recommended install offers, yet more than the

Re: [Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Con Kolivas
These people need all of KDE and no other wms installed. They also need all the *drak* configuration software, netscape communicator and some sort of office suite. They need NOTHING else. Unfortunately it takes quite some time for me to filter through all the other unneeded stuff

Re: [Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread diablero
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:40:14PM +0200, Pixel wrote: "Con Kolivas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I've installed Mandrake for about 6 people. These people are all windows converts who are not very good with PCs. What they want and should have when they use their machines are much