to show her how similar to windows it can be, since she's stubborn, show her a <span style="font-weight: bold;">kde</span>nvironment. knoppix i find particularly impressive for this with its array of toys n dazzly things to keep her happy.
<br>or maybe a dsl, if you could get her to realise how impressive it is, in comparison to doze too, ;).<br>and slax, <br><br>basically i'm saying make sure its a live cd first so you can show her old system is still there if she freaks.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">azmodie</b> <<a href="mailto:azmodie@gmail.com">azmodie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
from a few discussions on the ubuntu forums suggest something like <br><br><a href="http://fluxbuntu.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://fluxbuntu.org/</a><br><br>although they dont have a fiesty base yet. they will be releasing gutsy gibbon in october.
<br><br>screenshots: <a href="http://shots.fluxbuntu.org/nbuild1-rev2/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://shots.fluxbuntu.org/nbuild1-rev2/</a><div><span class="e" id="q_1139234721d563f1_1">
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nistur Effee</b> <<a href="mailto:nistur@karate.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
nistur@karate.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.
<br>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)
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