The future of linux

[Kris]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Noah Fields wrote:

> Derek I think you are right, the real issue is probably installing /
> upgrading applications. This tends to be the real baga-boo on all systems
> though, not just linux.
> Note that windows users quite often hose their systems, and that Mom might
> not be able to restore her system to usability without a very painful call
> to some tech support service.  We need to be better than that, don't we?

Problem: its your moms box and you are setting it up. Solution: Make an
account on it and do all the upgrades remotely, and crons for back up. I
do this for my mom -she runs lICQ, gAIM, Staroffice and Netscape. 
Sometimes she runs into small .exe's her friends send her and they all run
on wine -set netscape to run wine with any extension "exe"(well she uses
netscapes mail YMMV). She has a cable modem so dialing in isn't an issue
but its simple to set up auto dial -hit button = online, parents get that.
If its a username/pass thing they will get it if they have used AOL or any
chat program. I can't remeber the last time any of my parents used a DOS
prompt to do anything -run RH6.* and boot init 5 -it comes up all 
graphical, gnome like and happy... 

 -Kris

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