On 6 June 2010 23:28, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
old people/machines cannot use linux?
Of course they can :)
On machines part the distros which specified might be consuming a bit of processor powe but the user must be removing some useless services from his desktop else FF + OpenOffice is enough to slow down things .
I would also take the chance to suggest using google chromium browser or epiphany which take less memory and processor . chromium will run on webkit while epiphany runs on gecko( more or less similar to FF)
The user seems like will be offline for most of the time ( demands for 1 dvd everything distro) hence would suggest him to use something like GNU/Emacs for text editing and development purpose .
Old people are very mush welcome to use GNU/Linux . Actually I heard of many old people migrating to GNU/Linux because of its simplicity and no nuisance like viruses etc .
Also GNU/Linux tends to be having freely ( as in cost) available accessibile applications . Gnome tends to be more accessible desktop with its project http://projects.gnome.org/accessibility/
Old people I think wont be asking for games or flash editing which are hard to do on GNU/Linux . So lets migrate our old people to GNU/Linux . its easy . Let them have free and accessible desktop .
Regards, Pavithran