knightwise.com — They say its for geeks, they say its for nerds, they say its for those whose pinkie finger has the imprint of the enter key tattooed on it. We say its for your grandmother ! An article about how to install and configure UBUNTU linux so our grandmother could use it.
May 26, 2006 View in Crawl 4
trollenlordMay 27, 2006
Grandparents make good Linux users. They don't do anything really advanced or real so they do not hit the spots where Linux fails. Like multimedia, games, stuff done in corporate environments, ..
bilangewMay 27, 2006
6.06 is about to be released. And in the meantime there is a Release Candidate available, "Stable and suitable for testing by any user":<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_6.06_LTS_Release_Candidate_is_Out">http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_6.06_LTS_Release_Candidate_is_Out</a>
knightwiseMay 27, 2006Submitter
The whole point of this article was twofolded : ONE letting people see they don't have to be afraid of linux, that it CAN meet your basic needs if you configure it right. It can be as simple or as complicated as you want. The second and most important point is that we have to let loose of the illusion that life begins with Windows. For users who have never seen Windows the Linux desktop might even appear more simple. We should step away from the thought that everything has to be Windows like or windows compliant. We have to look at the DEMAND we get from a user. What does he / she want to do with her computer, what kind of an enviroment does he/she need. THEN formulate the answer. If its Windows its Windows, but if we can resolve and solve the problem with an adapted LINUX os ? Why the hell not. It worked didn't it ?
veritechMay 27, 2006
bad network support is mostly because the wireless drivers aren't open sources and not released under the GPL, and therefore technically copyright content in a copyleft environment. It's a no no in the OSS community to include not community stuff in a distro. It's not open if part of it is closed?
spacebar14May 28, 2006
Personally, I'd rather give granny Kubuntu rather then Ubuntu. I just find Gnome too. Well. Too frustrating and bloated.Actually, scrub that - I think I'll give her PCLinuxOS instead :-)
epiccrusadrMay 28, 2006
You just went way too far there.