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

[Christopher Robbins]

On 1/30/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/30/07, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK, here is my experience with older people, being one myself.
> >
> > 1) get on the internet and get and write e-mail when they want to.
> >
> > 2) don't reconfigure anything, EVER!!!
> >
> > 3) see and print and forward pictures of their Grandchildren.
> >
> > 4) chat with and see web cam pictures of the Grandchildren on MSN.
> >
> > 5) NO CHANGE, EVER! This is to the point that my friend, who sells
> > computers and sets them up, sometimes installs Win 98 on a new
> > computer. Changing ANY program is like moving the gas pedal of the car
> > to the dash and the steering wheel in the trunk.
> >
> > 6) touch their computer, you are responsible for it for the rest of
> > their lives and yours.
> >
> > 7) NO CHANGE, EVER!!!!
> >
> > As I see it, these are the parameters you are working in.
> >
> > Earl
>
>
>
> YOU GOT IT!
>
> That's exactly the situation.
>
> Now, the OS itself is going to do regular updates.  It's important that
> those updates not break anything, and not be very obtrusive.
>
> The Fedora Core 6 updates so far have violated "rule one" twice, breaking
> things in slight but "interesting" ways.  Bzzzt.  Scratch that idea.
>
> To give Ubuntu credit, their updates were always clean and never caused
> breakage.  Kewl.
>
> The OpenSuse updates I found to be obtrusive.  Repositories would be down
> and you'd get "update failure".  Repository support in OpenSuse I found to
> be ghastly in general.  If it wasn't for that, it'd be a "contenda" as
> they
> say in boxing.


Which repositories are you using?  If you use packman or bremen or gdwg,
there's usually never an issue.  I've had
issues with the openSuSE repositories since 10.1 - they have problems left
and right.

If you'd like, I can send you a more working source list...

-Chris


Jim
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Chris Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
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