I sure couldn't tell you how she managed to crash the classic MacOS - I was usually 3000 miles away. Probably she had the "help" of visiting grandchildren. By going with Yellow Dog Linux, I achieved several things: No costly upgrade to Mac OS X; no root access by people besides me; possibility of remote troubleshooting via SSH (which hasn't been necessary, BTW); and I know Linux a lot better than OSX.
That's what I did in 1999 - got my mother-in-law an iMac. Being the "Classic" MacOS, it started crashing frequently. Also, she started to get tons of spam. So last year I wiped the hard disk, put on Yellow Dog 3.0, and Mozilla with spam filtering. kppp for the dialup. Problems solved. It Just Works. And nobody else in the family messes with it - they don't know how!
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I sure couldn't tell you how she managed to crash the classic MacOS - I was usually 3000 miles away. Probably she had the "help" of visiting grandchildren. By going with Yellow Dog Linux, I achieved several things: No costly upgrade to Mac OS X; no root access by people besides me; possibility of remote troubleshooting via SSH (which hasn't been necessary, BTW); and I know Linux a lot better than OSX.
That's what I did in 1999 - got my mother-in-law an iMac. Being the "Classic" MacOS, it started crashing frequently. Also, she started to get tons of spam. So last year I wiped the hard disk, put on Yellow Dog 3.0, and Mozilla with spam filtering. kppp for the dialup. Problems solved. It Just Works. And nobody else in the family messes with it - they don't know how!