From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 26 16:45:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1301437B416 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from Tom_Parquette [24.24.29.69] by myrealbox.com with NIMS ModWeb Module; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:44:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX From: Tom Parquette To: johann@broadpark.no, Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:44:55 -0500 X-Mailer: NIMS ModWeb Module X-Sender: Tom_Parquette MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1009413895.49812ff2Tom_Parquette@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think we have a trend here... I agree with the suggestions from the other folks. I'd take the suggestions one step further. Install fvwm95. I had it runni= ng on a test system and it was close enough to window$ that I could work = with it without RTFM first. If security on your machine is not an issue, I'd accept the other suggestio= n and set up a passwordless account, and the scripting, to bring up fvwm9= 5 without them having to do anything. FWIW, When my wife first tried to learn to use a PC it was DOS and no GUI. = I don't know who was more frustrated, her or me!! But, she picked up th= e window$ "GUI" fairly quickly on her own. Cheers... BTW, I survived teaching my wife. Even if I do end up acting like a captiv= e Help Desk. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Johann Sharizan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 22:52:49 +0100 Subject: Teaching parents UNIX Hai hai! My mother and sister hardly knows how to navigate through Windows :-) What is the best way of flash-teaching them how the most basic of basic thi= ngs are done FreeBSD? I'm not fit for hours explaining. And this is the only sy= stem I have available to her. I havn't really found anything she might comprehend on freebsd.org, nor on = any of its links. If I'm missing something here, please enlighten me =3D) Regards, Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message