[ale] Distro for Mom?

Vincent Fox vf5 at plm.gatech.edu
Thu Aug 5 16:23:02 EDT 2004


Would it be silly of me to ask what is the current fave
Mom-friendly distro out there?

I bought them a ThinkNIC years ago and Mom was okay with
that until now. It was a minimalist black box that booted
from CD and stored bookmarks on flash. Nice big friendly button
that says CONNECT and a web browser and that's about it.
It's the wrong generation to have any complex interface IMHO.
I would get enough questions on the phone just about the NIC.

Problem is now that so many sites don't like the aged
browser that is on it, that is becoming a problem.
The company is long out of business.

I was thinking of using an old K6-2 192-meg 40-gig HD I have
and putting on Fedora or Mandrake or something, wanted some
feedback.  I've been monogamous with Redhat/Fedora for a while
so I thought some of the distro sluts might have other ideas.

Alternatively I guess next time I go up there I could see
if one of the Knoppix variants would boot on the ThinkNIC.




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