A computer with training wheels
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
You constantly hear people say that Windoze is easier.
Of course, the ones who say that are Windoze users[1]
and they're talking about a pre-installed and pre-configured environment.
The host of a British kids' TV show
has started to market a computer for elderly computer neophites.
It is called SimplicITy:
cache
of http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/new-simplicity-pc-encourages-elderly-to-get-online
As that article notes, when the old fogeys gain some confidence
they can take off the training wheels.
The SimplicITy PC uses an OS called Eldy, done by an Italian developer:
http://linuxforelderly.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/the-square-what-you-can-do-with-eldy/
That distro is also available (gratis and libre) without the hardware purchase:
http://www.eldy.eu/download/
The ISO download from his site is pretty small at 19MB
and requires a decompression utility that understands *.tar.gz.[2]
The geneology is Debian > Ubuntu > Linux Mint > Eldy.
I don't see system requirements listed anywhere. 8-(
Thinking of the M$ commercial with the little girl with the goldfish,
I note that some Linux environments for children also exist:
cache
of http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/linux-for-children.html
Has anybody seen something similar to any of this in the Windoze world
--especially free / low-cost?
NOTE: What bugs me about these no-log on / single-user systems is that
EVERYBODY has access to the stuff of anyone else who uses the computer
and with everyone running as root, anyone can damage the OS--much like Win9x.
8-(
[1] ...who apparently never heard the old saying
"The only intuitive interface is the nipple; everything else is learned".
[2] ...like Free(dom) Software 7-Zip.
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