On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:02, Mathias Homann wrote:
Hi,
I've got a serious question for you guys:
Would you say that "opensuse 10.x/ppc on an old g3 or g4 mac" is a good idea for someone who has NO computer experience at all, and is ... well, old.
Background: A computer for my mom, to send mails and browse the web. She has no experience with computers at all, so no matter what i give her, i'll have to do support for it. And right now I might be able to wrestle an old mac (g3 or g4 i think) out of the greedy hands of my companies basement storeroom where it sits unused, collecting dust (and maybe worse). And since I have no clue about macos, it will most likely be running opensuse/ppc + KDE 3.5.x.
Ist that a good idea, or am I digging my own grave here?
bye, MH
Let me start off by saying I have minimal experience with the PPC end of SUSE... I would say, though, that its a great idea. Your mom probably won't deviate from what you tell her, ie: "Use KMail, Konquerer/Firefox, and DigiKam", so she probably won't run into oddities. I would recommend though, that you remove packages and daemons that are unnecessary for a base installation. KDE will appear very friendly and usable, but it also can be a resource hog on older machines, like any modern GUI. Removing some of the back end items that she has no use/need for will go a long way to giving her an enjoyable computing experience :) Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin