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

[Jim March]

On Wine, Gnome, KDE and the lack of XFCE support:

Wine and Crossover (really the same core program differing only in terms of
support and ease of installation/software management) use the windowing
features of Gnome or KDE beyond just what X-windows can do.

They don't (yet?) support the similar (if more limited) windows extensions
in XFCE.

Wine/Crossover is really pushing the limits for what the platform can do,
and need all the help they can get.  There's an obvious speed deficit.

I have two Windows apps working under Wine: MS-Internet Exploiter 6.0 for
websites that HAVE to have M$ browser support and Irfanview for simple photo
manipulation.  The latter is such a small program that it does quite well
but IE noticably lags behind Firefox.

I'm running a P4/2gHz with 768megs RAM on an older laptop with a 32meg
Radeon 7500 video card...not exactly state of the art.

Jim