Am 18. Jan, 2006 schwätzte Carl Parrish so:
> Okay my aunt, who is in her 60's, heard about Linux on a PBS program. She
> knew I was involved with it so she asked me to install it for her. So far
> we've purchased a IBM (or really Leveno) Thinkpad for her. I'm guessing
> that's probably the best laptop to start with. (for Linux). I'm a little gun
> shy about laptops because I once tried installing on a Gateway and just found
> that it was impossible. I have successfully gotten Fedora on a Toshiba
Well, it was a gateway :).
Seriously, I've been using only GNU/Linux on my laptops for almost 10
years. In the last couple of years that includes several Thinkpads (
mostly T30 ) and now a Dell Latitude.
Knoppix and Ubuntu have rocked whenever I've installed them. Wireless,
sound, pcmcia and usb drive detection have all worked out of the box. I
think X has as well, but might've had to tweak that.
Be careful of chipsets for wireless and modem. The rest of the hardware
should work just fine. Video might not work at top capabilities, but
non-gamers probably won't notice.
If she has peripherials like printer, scanner, etc. do some research on
them.
> however. Okay basically my concerns are 1) getting the wireless networking
> going. 2) making sure that I can ssh into the box. 3) Get AOL working with
AOL might be difficult.
penggy - connects to AOL via modem or TCP/IP
Never tried that. It's in Ubuntu and debian.
I've been using gaim for AOL IM for a couple of years. It's worked great
except that I hate instant messengers :). For that it's been great because
I can config it to be fairly unobtrusive.
> it. She lives in Michigan so everything that has to be done hands on has to
> be done during the next two weeks whiles she's here. She's already used to
> Thunderbird, firefox, and Open Office. But she's currently using AOL (and
> she's scared there is no way to keep up with her contacts if she leaves).
AOL intentionally makes it hard to get contacts back out. If they're
available via a web interface write a screen scraper.
If they can only be accessed via AOL's mail client be prepared to do a lot
of cutting and pasting :(.
> Anyone know if AOL's client will work with CrossOver? She'll have high speed
> Internet access while she's here and wants to set it up at her house., but
> still will keep AOL. So any resources words of advise or known dangers would
> be good.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl P.
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