[dundee] Old laptop

[Nistur Effee]

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> From: "Digit (SG)" <digit.siljrath at googlemail.com>
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Old laptop
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 18:18:10 +0100
> 
> 
> to show her how similar to windows it can be, since she's stubborn, show her
> a kdenvironment.   knoppix i find particularly impressive for this with its
> array of toys n dazzly things to keep her happy.
> or maybe a dsl, if you could get her to realise how impressive it is, in
> comparison to doze too, ;).
> and slax,
> 
> basically i'm saying make sure its a live cd first so you can show her old
> system is still there if she freaks.
> 
> On 04/07/07, azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > from a few discussions on the ubuntu forums suggest something like
> >
> > http://fluxbuntu.org/
> >
> > although they dont have a fiesty base yet. they will be releasing gutsy
> > gibbon in october.
> >
> > screenshots:  http://shots.fluxbuntu.org/nbuild1-rev2/
> >
> >
> > On 7/4/07, Nistur Effee < nistur at karate.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmmm where to start? I have a very... stubborn mother. She has an old
> > > Win98 laptop that she uses for childminding, *shudders* edutainment style
> > > games and the like however, with it being a cast off from one 
> > of the parents
> > > it has thousands of faults and takes hours to do anything.
> > > She has so far been totally against the idea of putting Linux on it
> > > because "she won't know what to do". Going with children everywhere, I'm
> > > going to ignore her. I'll install Linux and see what she says, then install
> > > 98 after if she insists. I was just wondering what people would suggest in
> > > terms of distro. The HDD is only 2GB so Ubuntu/Minty is out of the question
> > > and I'd like to think I could get a variety of distros into working shape
> > > with some fiddling. Does anyone have any experience with lightweight (or
> > > maybe older versions) designed for Windoze migrants? (first one to say
> > > Lindows sits in the corner)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
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Thanks everyone. To start off with, I agree that KDE is probably best, even though in virtually all situations I'm pro-gnome. so Fluxbuntu or whatever it was is out of the picture. I was considering trying to skin things to make it look windows-y to see if she'd notice.
As I said, she'd mainly be using it for the kid's games so she would have a few CDs to install, but it's not like edutainment programs use the latest in DirectX or anything, so I think I should be able to set up WINE to run that normally.
As for a live CD, the only way I'd get her to agree to it is if I'd leave linux on there and make it simple to use, but probably say I'd install 98 in a bit or whatever. She'd never say yes to me showing her a live CD. Oh, and the current install doesn't work. Well, it does, but slowly, and you have to tell it to ignore about 10 system file errors at boot. Fun. So no worries about losing the old system, she wants a format anyway.
Basically, I think I want something that will install to less than 1GB and will be able to auto login. Like I said, customising shouldn't be too bad as I have a while to fiddle before I demonstrate the thing.

Thanks again

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Nistur                            nistur at karate.com


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