[ale] Linux for senior citizens

[Lightner, Jeff]

Funny - That could be a homophone with "Antiques" Linux which is apropos to the original request :-)

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Boris Borisov
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:29 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux for senior citizens

I'm for Antix Linux 13.1. Based on Debian, light, icewm + icons, flash player installed. Just fast. You can choose between stable, testing or unstable repositories. Even from flash drive is blazing fast.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
ps, if running wine, still look out for windows viruses.

could have dual boot / vm / live cd / separate restricted account / SOMETHING just for grandkids.

remember windows data & people to exchange data with.

Ron


"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

>Mint + Mate desktop, but I'm biased.
>
>Ron
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>Adrya Stembridge <adrya.stembridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>A neighbor expressed interest in having her laptop rebuilt after
>>grandchildren inadvertently butchered Windows with malware via "games
>>off
>>the internet".   She doesn't have her Windows disk anymore, so I
>>suggested
>>we install Linux.  She's elderly, but still has her wits.
>>
>>Are there other distros than Eldy Linux I should know about?
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