On the heels of the Mac Mini announcement I'm surprised more people haven't said this. I've never been a personal fan of the Macintosh, or Apple in general. Especially after their RIAA/MPAA like tactics of suing their customers but I'd sooner recommend one for my grandparents than the SimPC.
On a related note: out of all of my relatives my Grandmother is one of the more computer savvy ones, and happily burns Cds, uses her cable modem, emails everyone and creates greeting cards. Not too shabby for someone who is 80 and never touched a computer until she was 75 or so!
I agree 100%, I've converted many people to firefox already and a couple to Linux completely. after fixing their system every few months. The couple things I've noticed afterwards:
1) The newly converted are *much* happier. 2) They all seem to only remember the word 'mozilla'. 3) None of them can properly pronounce mozilla, it comes out more like 'mozzarella'.
Although I will admit that in the case where I install firefox on windows, I do remove all the easy to get to icons for IE.
Although you have a good point, and I'm not going to get into the renaming firefox thing now, when I first read "Jaguar" I thought OS X 10.2 and thought "one would have to pay me to take that"!
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On the heels of the Mac Mini announcement I'm surprised more people haven't said this. I've never been a personal fan of the Macintosh, or Apple in general. Especially after their RIAA/MPAA like tactics of suing their customers but I'd sooner recommend one for my grandparents than the SimPC.
On a related note: out of all of my relatives my Grandmother is one of the more computer savvy ones, and happily burns Cds, uses her cable modem, emails everyone and creates greeting cards. Not too shabby for someone who is 80 and never touched a computer until she was 75 or so!
I agree 100%, I've converted many people to firefox already and a couple to Linux completely. after fixing their system every few months. The couple things I've noticed afterwards:
1) The newly converted are *much* happier.
2) They all seem to only remember the word 'mozilla'.
3) None of them can properly pronounce mozilla, it comes out more like 'mozzarella'.
Although I will admit that in the case where I install firefox on windows, I do remove all the easy to get to icons for IE.
Although you have a good point, and I'm not going to get into the renaming firefox thing now, when I first read "Jaguar" I thought OS X 10.2 and thought "one would have to pay me to take that"!
True, not everything is GNU.
... not every distro in the world is Red Hat.
However there is a GPLed version of this, which reminds me