everything was perfect

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Awhile back, I setup my elderly neighbor with everything she need to:
access the Internet, check her email, work on her art, work with
documents, and so much more. I haven't heard anything from her on the
subject of computers since. I wrote a blog entry about setting up her
56k modem on the computer before I issued it to her, see here:
http://www.humans-enabled.com/2009/04/my-example-of-pci-56k-dial-up-modem.html
I was so surprised about the maintenance-free setup of Linux that I
even went as far to bring up the subject of the computer to my
neighbor to see if it was even still working. She responded that
everything worked fine and that even though the dial-up takes a little
while to get some pictures in her email, that it was well worth it for
the price of FREE (free dialup in Seattle). I asked her if anything
needed to be "fixed" and she said no, and that everything was perfect.

I've also setup another neighbor, and her one thing was that she
wanted to use a genealogy program called PAF on her newly minted Linux
machine(it was a machine that had Vista, which she couldn't stand, and
so she had me set her up with Linux).. PAF is a windows program, and
so not thinking about wine at the moment, I recommended to her the
G.R.A.M.P.S. (F/OSS) genealogy program. She said it wouldn't import
the PAF files. So then I went to appdb.winehq.org and found out that
PAF runs just fine on Linux in Wine... Then I installed it, and so
there it is - another success story for Linux.

And here's another one.. I sent a "legacy" machine with Linux to a
friend in NJ so she could have a computer (cuz she had none). And at
first we had some issues with getting the Verizon DSL setup because it
was only supposed to "support" Windows/Mac, but then we broke through
and she's been loving Linux ever since. See the related blog posting
about it here: http://www.humans-enabled.com/2007/06/verizon-dsl-doesnt-support-linux.html

Linux is the way to go.. I can't explain this enough with... it would
take pages and pages.

Anyone who has something bad to say about Linux - contact me, go on a
forum, contact anyone who can truly help you get started. Because
unless you are financially or otherwise biased towards using a
proprietary OS, you absolutely will have something to gain and learn
from GNU/Linux.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15040/linux_for_grandma_grandpa

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:56:31 -0800 (PST), nessuno wrote:

> <Quote>
> Awhile back, I setup my elderly neighbor with everything she need to:
> access the Internet, check her email, work on her art, work with
> documents

Amazing how nessuno moves from Berkely CA. to France so quickly....