On Friday 25 September 2009 17:02:24 Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
wrote:
I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so
I believe if you install all the multimedia stuff that's described on the CentOS Wiki and K3b, and the other things previous responses have mentioned, OpenOffice.org, etc., she will be fine. The one thing I suggest you teach her is where her files are and how to backup to a CD or DVD.
In the past, under windows, I set up a one-click link to run a pre-defined job. Since I moved her to Mandriva I have shown her once how to copy files with k3b, and she wasn't unhappy about that.
I ran into an issue with K3b (which otherwise works perfectly for me), where it couldn't automatically erase a CD-RW (which I think it claims it can do), so I need to su - and as root "umount /dev/hdd" before it can erase a CD-RW. Hopefully she won't need to do that, as running as root is probably not something she should be doing.
Not really a problem. When we discussed RWs she said that CD-Rs are so cheap now that it's not worth the bother of using RWs.
I have installed one package from the FC6 DVD (KDEEDU) on CentOS 5 (32 bit) to get KStars and that worked fine. But, as Phil pointed out, maybe better to rebuild from the srpm.
Sounds encouraging, thanks.
Anne