On Friday 25 September 2009 17:02:24 Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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