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

[Joe Blais]

Don't shoot me --
If they are running XPPro- just download VirtualPC, free from Microsoft.
Set it up and install XP, again, into a virtual PC.  Make a backup copy of
that virtual disk.  Then make sure they run entirely out of that virtual PC.
If they get a bug, just restore the last backup --

Almost no learning curve.  If they have a winders Pro version (I don't think
xp home will run the virtual stuff, the new one anyway) they don't need
anything new except the download.

They can even learn Linux by running it in a virtual PC -- I do that here
all the time.... then if they want to ...

You could even set up the virtual PC once, and just move that image around
without having to re-install for everyone. (license -- who needs a license?)

?
Joe



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> Jim March
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:14 AM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: [Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro...
>
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm running into a circle of politically active older folks
> almost entirely
> running XP, "geek genes" about on par with a hampster, and they're getting
> *hammered* by malware.  We're talking dozens now expanding into
> hundreds of
> these folks just around Tucson.  They use a few basic apps hard and heavy:
> EMail, web, MS-officecrud.  Some do simple photostuff.
>