[ale] Older parent friendly desktop WM

[Jim Kinney]

heh, heh, heh :-)

+1 !

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My solution to all of this: (
> http://www.moreprepared.com/emergency-preparedness-supplies/the-storm-whistle.html?gclid=CPnqgM7EkMECFS1k7AodVxsABQ
> ).  So far I've caught one scammer with it, and I'm eagerly awaiting  more.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/03/2014 07:12 AM, Larry Johnson wrote:
>> > I'd still suggest Gnewsense.  The simple gnome 2 interface will be
>> > intuitive to most people who've used any version of Windows before
>> > version 8, and it has all the basic stuff an end user typically needs
>> > (browser, word processor, IM, etc).  I'm running it on one of the old
>> > Acer Aspire One netbooks that so many people picked up cheaply after
>> > they were discontinued, and it runs well.
>> looking on the gnewsense website, the desktop shot looks alot like the
>> MATE desktop & menus.. that menu was the reason I went to MATE..
>> is that the new gnome desktop, or have I missed this...
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
>>
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