Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:58:25AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Every time before I've had to go with a newbie-friendly GUI for people
> who don't know computers and more importantly DON'T WANT TO LEARN about
> them, I've gone with either a Gnome or KDE setup.
>
> At any other time, I'd suggest one of the *box variants. But with a user
> with this little knowledge and this little patience...
I'd recommend reading
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Rf60.3dw.23%40gated-at.bofh.it
http://www.igs.net/~tril/fvwm/
..for some ideas. However, I think setting up and using a friendly,
suitable WM are two different things, and you may have very little luck
with the former. Windowmaker is fairly well set up by default in debian,
and should cope on your old box. However it isn't the window managers in
kde/gnome which take up all the resources, so if they want to run really
big apps like mozilla/konqueror/OOo then a light-weight wm won't really
help.
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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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