Which is an intuitive X-windows setup for a user who has grown up in the
Microsoft world. I need to configure a box for kids and they are not used
to Linux. What should work is: USB, camera connection, MP3 player
connection, printer, a messenger and, of course, a browser. It would be
best just clicking on some icons.
Sorry for asking, I am used to the commandline in X-terminals and may be
too demanding when I configure the box.

Thanks / JB

J Boehm wrote:
> Which is an intuitive X-windows setup for a user who has grown up in the
> Microsoft world. I need to configure a box for kids and they are not used
> to Linux. What should work is: USB, camera connection, MP3 player
> connection, printer, a messenger and, of course, a browser. It would be
> best just clicking on some icons.
> Sorry for asking, I am used to the commandline in X-terminals and may be
> too demanding when I configure the box.
>
> Thanks / JB

Sounds like gnome or KDE would be a perfect fit for you. But since there
is speculation that Slackware might not include gnome in the future, you
might be better off using KDE. KDE has alot of programs that should
handle what you need, although Im not sure about the mp3 player, but if
it is popular then there should be something for it.

J Boehm wrote:
> Which is an intuitive X-windows setup for a user who has grown up in the
> Microsoft world. I need to configure a box for kids and they are not used
> to Linux. What should work is: USB, camera connection, MP3 player
> connection, printer, a messenger and, of course, a browser. It would be
> best just clicking on some icons.
> Sorry for asking, I am used to the commandline in X-terminals and may be
> too demanding when I configure the box.
>
> Thanks / JB
I just loaded a kde desktop and let my kids go at it. Kids are very
resourceful. I wouldn't worry to much about what you put in front of
them. If they are kids they aren't grown up yet and will get usedto what
you throw at them. If they are like mine, if they have messenger, music
and email that is about all they want.

mAineAc

J Boehm wrote:

> Which is an intuitive X-windows setup for a user who has grown up in the
> Microsoft world. I need to configure a box for kids and they are not used
> to Linux. What should work is: USB, camera connection, MP3 player
> connection, printer, a messenger and, of course, a browser. It would be
> best just clicking on some icons.
> Sorry for asking, I am used to the commandline in X-terminals and may be
> too demanding when I configure the

Are you asking for suggestions for a distro? Based on what you said, I'd
suggest Mepis. I installed this on my wife's machine, and it's been just
right. It's also the distro that I give to people who are wanting to try
Linux for the first time.

But there are many other, of course.

J Boehm wrote:

>Which is an intuitive X-windows setup for a user who has grown up in the
>Microsoft world. I need to configure a box for kids and they are not used
>to Linux. What should work is: USB, camera connection, MP3 player
>connection, printer, a messenger and, of course, a browser. It would be
>best just clicking on some icons.
>Sorry for asking, I am used to the commandline in X-terminals and may be
>too demanding when I configure the box.
>
>Thanks / JB
>
>
Oh, haevens, this again!
And don't be sorry for asking as this can be a doctorat work for
psychology student.
Nothing is intuitive, and each of us brings habits from what we learned
in previous enviroment.
So don't even try, new enviroment needs new skills, but you can make it
easier and "kindergarten"
controlled by use of pictures (icons).
So sharpen your administrative skills and go to work.

Good luck!

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

J Boehm wrote:

> Which is an intuitive X-windows setup for a user who has grown up in the
> Microsoft world. I need to configure a box for kids and they are not used
> to Linux. What should work is: USB, camera connection, MP3 player
> connection, printer, a messenger and, of course, a browser. It would be
> best just clicking on some icons.
> Sorry for asking, I am used to the commandline in X-terminals and may be
> too demanding when I configure the

Oh, I see on second reading that you're asking for suggestions of Window
managers, not distros. My kids have no trouble with KDE. I think they've
managed to get everything to work that they wanted.

rs wrote:

>
> Oh, I see on second reading that you're asking for suggestions of Window
> managers, not distros. My kids have no trouble with KDE. I think they've
> managed to get everything to work that they wanted.

I agree with KDE.

Six months ago I got tired of wife getting every virus and worm on the planet
with XP so in middle of night I loaded Slack on her laptop, told her it was
the new Windows update, version K (which explained the "K" start button.) I
put on Codeweavers Xover and loaded the MS Office stuff. She started it up,
remarked how the new graphics looked so nice, and went to work.

I finally told her the truth, but for a few weeks she thought it was Windows
and that MS had a new mascot (how else could I explain the penguin?)

I don't know how you do a web cam with KDE but I'll bet there is a way.
Everything else the kids will want to do will work.

I suggest you do not give them the root password :-)

Al C.

On 2004-11-16, J Boehm <danube@cwcom.delete.net> wrote:

> Which is an intuitive X-windows setup for a user who has grown up in the
> Microsoft world.

KDE

I need to configure a box for kids and they are not used
> to Linux.

So what?

> best just clicking on some icons.

Why?

> too demanding when I configure the box.

Is the problem you or the kids?

I know I'm being just a bit facetious, but you are selling the kids short.
If they're young and have little exposure to Windoze, they have less to
"unlearn". It's an established fact that kids absorb knowledge much faster
than set-in-their-ways adults. In India, a major computer company stuck
bullet-proof computers in the security walls surrounding their mega-mfg
campus so that just a keyboard and a monitor faced outward into the the
crippling poverty stricken surrounding neighborhood. No instructions, no
user's manual, just a keyboard and a screen in a mud motif kiosk. Those
kids were all over those terminals like white on rice. Some kids were
already doing serious low-tech hacking within days.

If you're smart, you'll keep the M$ crap far far away from the kids and let
their natural curiosity do the rest.

nb

On 2004-11-17, Al. C <no.spam.acanton@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:

> Six months ago I got tired of wife getting every virus and worm on the planet
> with XP so in middle of night I loaded Slack on her laptop, told her it was
> the new Windows update, version K (which explained the "K" start button.) I
> put on Codeweavers Xover and loaded the MS Office stuff. She started it up,
> remarked how the new graphics looked so nice, and went to work.
>
> I finally told her the truth, but for a few weeks she thought it was Windows
> and that MS had a new mascot (how else could I explain the penguin?)

lmao! Now that's funny :P


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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:06:49 +0000, Al. C wrote:
....
> Six months ago I got tired of wife getting every virus and worm on the planet
> with XP so in middle of night I loaded Slack on her laptop, told her it was
> the new Windows update, version K (which explained the "K" start button.) I
> put on Codeweavers Xover and loaded the MS Office stuff. She started it up,
> remarked how the new graphics looked so nice, and went to work.
>
> I finally told her the truth, but for a few weeks she thought it was Windows
> and that MS had a new mascot (how else could I explain the penguin?)
....
Mod quote, anyone?

;^j
Rich