*nix box Your Grandmother Could Use

http://qrxx.4t.com/linuxbeat3.htm

I think this dude is serious.

Well, two distros means choosing a good boot loader. Which would my grandmother like better, Lilo or Grub? Personally I think Lilo is more straight-forward, but Grub is easier to configure. Since I wasn't sure if grandma Helen planned on getting under the hood of the boot process at all, I decided to install a boot switcher so she could choose between Lilo or Grub each time.



PS: Im starting on one for my grandmother as we speak just for kicks.


!mitationRust

wow, some cool grandma you got.

My grans parents hardly know how to turn on a computer.

Its fun, theire generation made all of this possible, but the generation that came after them learned about them.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

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I think this dude is serious

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I don't................but I would like to talk to whoever "deals" for him, as the stuff he peddles is obviously top quality? :D

IMHO an 89 year old grandmother who is used to an AppleMac running OS7.5 does not need a twin processor box with advanced graphisc and THREE (THREE !!!!!) HDDs.

The kid is on a self gratifying ego trip......there is no other logical explanation?

By his own admission, she only uses it for e-mail and a little correspondence. Unless he "gets real" before he has to earn a living, he won't get work.

I bet she doesn't use it, and sticks with the old Mac she knows and loves......but there again, I have far more experience of old people and Alzheimer's

Interesting way of wasting $750 though :p

EDIT: Just to maintain my paranoid cynic reputation.....the kid knows this, and that Grandma won't want it.....so he got to build himself a toy on Mom's money?

Cheers