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

[Tim Ottinger]

Tks for the suggestion.  This year I am going to get my kids' computers more
up-to-date and maybe put a server with big disks in the basement.  I figure
they'll only be gaming, so cedega it is.  They already do everything else in
Linux and are not really familiar with Windows.

Funny story: My 16-year-old years ago took a computer literacy test in
school.  They almost flunked him. They asked what programs to use for word
processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.  He wrote "open office", "open
office", and "open office".  The teacher never heard of open office, or
Linux.  John had to teach her.   Computer literacy my foot!

Anyway, if we can get some dos games, they'll be happy.  They don't have any
greater needs for windows.  I might give them Mame too, since that's more
their style in general.

Tks for the help.  Totally off topic... my kids are as far from Millie as
possible (in age and gender!).

tim

On 2/2/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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