[Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...

[Anthony Hess]

I think Ubuntu/Debian type distros are good (apt is great) but it
might be less work, as mentioned earlier, to just reformat once (Im of
the school of thought that once your box has been compromised its time
to format) and then install proper tools and educate them.

Yea they still may get hit, but unless they have very particular uses
for their machine that you can predict then you're going to be going
back to move them to Windows when something they want doesn't work.
That could be software, peripherals, or just "how to do" something.

Its a tough call - you are going to get drawbacks any direction you
go.  How about VMWare Player and an image?  Have them surf the web in
that.

Tony

On 1/28/07, Tim Ottinger <tottinge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've found a lot of luck with XUbuntu.  It's easy to show people how to get
> their own software and how to take upgrades via synaptic.  Actually, any
> Ubuntu would be fine.  I think the advantage of XUbuntu is that it's ubuntu
> and it has a lightweight window manager with good features.  You all
> inspired a rant, and I did it at
> http://tottinge.blogsome.com/2007/01/28/why-aunt-millie-isnt-using-my-linux-distro/
>
>
> I think OS X would be a good millie OS, if it werent for the hardware issue.
> :-(  I suppose any fairly modern APT-using distro with many/large
> repositories and Darwin on top would be excellent.
>
>
>
> On 1/28/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > MacOS means ditching their current hardware investment.  Not gonna happen.
> >
> > Jim
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