Am Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2006 16:35 schrieb Peter Czanik:
Hello,
Mathias Homann wrote:
Background: A computer for my mom, to send mails and browse the web.
It all depends on what pages does she want to browse. E-mail is no trouble at all (I use it daily), and web sites look the same as on other platforms, with some exceptions. But these exceptions might be problematic: there is no Flash and there is no Java browser plugin for Linux PPC. Bye,
truth be said, she doesnt know (yet) ;) fact is, I sweet-talked her into getting a 2mbit dsl line (yes she doesn't have a computer yet), with included VoIP flatrate so that she doesn't have to find the cheapest call-by-call long distance plan from the newspaper (where the listings are painfully inaccurate) anymore, which in fact IS cheaper than what she pays for phone fees right now... Now i though i could hook her up with a cheap box for browsing and email, because every time she needs a train schedule she calls me to look it up for her, and ever so often she hits a phone hotline where the IVR tells her to send an email... So right now i might be able to scrounge an old G4 mac (you know, the ones that look like the german playing card symbol "karo" from the side) at work, and because i couldn't help her at all with Mac OS, i thought OSS/ppc would be better. Which comes back to one basic question, does the apple airport module work on OSS/ppc, and can you do WPA with it? bye, MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C