[vox] linux recommendation

[Michael Cheselka]

You would be describing Xandros I believe.

On 3/3/07, Peter Jay Salzman <p at dirac.org> wrote:
> I want to buy my mom a computer.  Don't care bout OSS principles, the
> "right" way of doing things, or any of that.  What I *do* care about is:
>
> 1. Brainless install on my part.  Everything "just works".
> 2. No tinkering necessary once it's installed.
> 3. Easiest to use.
> 4. Seamless integration with things like wine.
>
> A distro that caters to people who don't know anything about computers, but
> more importantly, who don't WANT to know anything about computers other than
> word processing, reading email, browsing, running stepmania, and various
> other mundane tasks.
>
> What distro best suits my needs?
>
> I've also heard that Gnome is better than KDE for really clueless newbies
> (that would be my mom).  But it sounds like if *I* ever had to tinker with
> her system, I would be in trouble.  Would there be a reason to install one
> more than the other?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
> --
> How VBA rounds a number depends on the number's internal representation.
> You cannot always predict how it will round when the rounding digit is 5.
> If you want a rounding function that rounds according to predictable rules,
> you should write your own.
>               -- MSDN, on Microsoft VBA's "stochastic" rounding function
>
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