On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Chaz Sliger wrote:
>
> Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated.
The OLTP project has created the Sugar interface. It's designed to
be an easy-to-use interface running on top of Linux. It should have
the basic tools your mother needs with the
Daniel Johnson wrote:
>> Browser *and* email client? Why not webmail? :)
>
> I haven't managed to get my grandpa to understand how to use webmail.
> They frequently change user interfaces, and that's a problem.
Squirrel Mail interface hasn't changed in years.
Assuming you are providing her mail s
Chaz Sliger wrote:
> I need to set up a system for my 88 year old mother-in-law.
>
> I think it's really great that she is interested, but she is VERY
> non-technical (has never driven a car).
FWIW, my experience with getting my Mom an iMac:
-- She never installed security updates because she th
Chaz Sliger wrote:
> Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated.
Happened to see this just today. Though even at her age, I would just
have two or three icons on the desktop at all.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pclinuxos-2009.html
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m0gely
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:52 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Ali Corbin
> wrote:
> >> Actually, you might want to do an auto-start thing, so that a browser
> >> and email client will come up automa
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:52 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Ali Corbin wrote:
>> Actually, you might want to do an auto-start thing, so that a browser
>> and email client will come up automatically.
>
> Browser *and* email client? Why not webmail? :)
I haven
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Ali Corbin wrote:
> Actually, you might want to do an auto-start thing, so that a browser
> and email client will come up automatically.
Browser *and* email client? Why not webmail? :)
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky
I've never met
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Chaz Sliger wrote:
> I need to set up a system for my 88 year old mother-in-law.
>
When my 80-something year old mother's windows box died, my brother
got her a new box and put Suse on it, running (I think) KDE.
Probably any combination of distro and window manag
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Chaz Sliger wrote:
> Is it possible to set up a Linux box with a Very Simplified interface for
> web access and email?
I'd suggest a tweaked FVWM UI with only the features she'll really
need. You can add some odd keystroke or something to get to a
terminal so yo
Ubuntu or Suse would be a pretty straightforward and easy to use
interface for most anyone
Chaz Sliger wrote:
> I need to set up a system for my 88 year old mother-in-law.
>
> I think it's really great that she is interested, but she is VERY
> non-technical (has never driven a car).
>
> Is it poss
I need to set up a system for my 88 year old mother-in-law.
I think it's really great that she is interested, but she is VERY
non-technical (has never driven a car).
Is it possible to set up a Linux box with a Very Simplified interface for
web access and email?
I'm going to have it connected to
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