How to control your dad via the net?

[Duncan]

Tassilo Horn posted on Thu, 20 May 2010 12:12:52 +0200 as excerpted:

> On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:35:53 Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> 
>> Your dad uses gentoo?? WOW!!!
> 
> Well, he "uses" OpenOffice.org (which he calls Office with Word, Excel
> and friends), Firefox (which he mostly spells Fixofax) and some other
> apps, but he's not aware of what's under the hood, and neither he does
> any administration.  I won't tell him the root password in this life.
> ;-)
> 
> I only chose Gentoo, cause that's what I use and which I know best.

Good for you!

I run Gentoo as well, and would do likewise (including the they don't get 
root part, tho my dad is computer literate enough to at least normally 
know the apps he's running, and between him and my sister, they stay 
pretty well malware free) if I were close enough to my folks for long 
enough to convince them to run Linux and to do the initial setup for 
them.  But they're several states away, and they normally visit me 
(they're retired and can travel), not the other way around, so I don't 
really get the opportunity for that initial convincing and setup.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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