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:LinuxWorld: What's the Best OS For My Parents?
LinuxWorld: What's the Best OS For My Parents?
Jul 28, 2004, 00 :00 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (4168 reads)

"To cut a long story short, I need an operating system that's easy enough for my parents to use but secure enough so that I can firewall it and all the other stuff that one needs to do in order to be on the Internet these days.

"It also needs to be flexible enough that I can give them only the options they need and hide the guts from them and low administration so that I don't have to touch it any time soon..."

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I am in the same situation: my parents a ...   OpenBSD?   
R.L.
Jul 28, 2004, 04:29:57
 
I hate to tell you the end result, but j ...   Mandrake   
NeoSadist
Jul 28, 2004, 05:28:58
 
My Grandad seems to have survived a mont ...   Windows is not the ideal.   
Richard Corfield
Jul 28, 2004, 05:46:44
 
"With those requirements, my only choice ...   typical linux   
W. Esbach
Jul 28, 2004, 05:51:36
 
I just did exactly what the author of th ...   I just did this!   
HexJam
Jul 28, 2004, 08:38:53
 
With the proviso that you know how to se ...   Gentoo   
Simon
Jul 28, 2004, 10:16:21
 
My parents have been using Mandrake for  ...   I did this long ago   
Doug Loss
Jul 28, 2004, 13:13:20
 
Right, man!  ...   RIGHT, MAN!   
watchman
Jul 28, 2004, 13:26:09
 
just have them get an iMac and be done w ...   mac   
Joe Zasada
Jul 28, 2004, 14:47:16
 
Done that a while back with RH 7.3, whic ...   Been there....   
RobBochan
Jul 28, 2004, 15:13:33
 
I bought my father one of those WalMart  ...   Urpmi-request, etc.   
James E LaBarre
Jul 28, 2004, 15:14:56
 
Actually that's been my recommendati ...   OS X   
AJWM
Jul 28, 2004, 15:47:01
 
A few years ago I would have recommended ...   Depends on your parents...   
Charles Hixson
Jul 28, 2004, 18:16:24
 
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