that would be nice. However, we are talking about a 70+ year old lady that has troubles enough even working with windows. I will be going out of town for the next year or so to the colorado center for the blind and will be entirely too busy to even be able to offer any tech support (which will be expected of me should I saddle her with linux). I realize this is a linux users group, but you are the only folks I know that would even help (I cannot thank you enough for the donor laptop several months back. it helped me out with being able to do some work away from the house).
I wish I had disposable income to just buy her a new one, but we all can't have what we want)
thanks for trying guys.
-eric
On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Patrick P wrote:
> I'd suggest installing one of the lightweight linux distros.
>
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:51:50 -0700
> Subject: Re: need to find a donor computer.
> From: kevin@fries-biro.com
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> BoCoCo
> On Dec 21, 2011 4:39 PM, "Technomage Hawke" <technomage.hawke@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello guys.
> I have a friend of mine (she is a nice old lady) who needs some help. she has an old computer that is not working and she needs to get a newer one. the problem is that she lives on a limited income and can't afford to buy new. is there any help you guys can offer?
>
> her current machine is an older k6-2 machine with windows XP and it is running so dog slow that she cannot do anything on it. any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. you can respond to me directly as i don't have her permission to post her phone.
>
> -eric
> 623-399-5635
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