[ale] Live CD to drop on my Dad's computer over thanksgiving?

[Jay Loden]

I highly recommend Slax Live CD - http://slax.linux-live.org 

Slax is small (less than 200mb) and only includes *one* app for each purpose. 
That means that you won't have the bewildering variety of applications you 
have on Knoppix, but it's snappier, smaller, and less confusing. There's one 
web browser, one email program, and one office suite, etc. As a side note, 
while this is entirely an opinion, I think the default theme for Slax is a 
lot cleaner than Knoppix's last few incarnations and less intimidating.

It also lets you boot either to a command prompt (default) or a GUI, or a 
lightweight GUI (fluxbox) if you have a low resource system. If you have at 
least 256mb of RAM (I'd recommend 512) you can also give it the option 
"copy2ram" and it will copy everything to a ramdisk at boot. This is *really* 
fast once everything is booted, and you can then eject the cd-rom, which is 
pretty neat.

-Jay

On Monday 14 November 2005 9:38 am, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   I'm planning on dropping in on my Dad for Thanksgiving.  He's asked me
> to look at his home network while I'm there.  I warned him I'm brining
> Linux CD's and if he expects me to touch his computers he will be
> learing one of them.
>
>   My father is 59, Lives in a south florida community with an average age
> of 66.  He is capable of thinking just doesn't like necessarily learning
> new things with the computer when windows point and click "works fine."
>
>   Put the flamewars on hold, they'll be put in the spam filter but
> anyone have recomendations on Live CD's that I can drop on his desktop
> computer to show him there are much better alternatives than Windows?
> And what merrits does your suggestion have?
>