Funny, I switched my dad's computer from W2K over to Mandrake Linux 10.x. Showed him what icons to click for web browsing, e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets.
Oh, and solitare. Gotta have solitare.
Haven't had any complaints, problems or issues (virus', spyware etc.) from him on it since. The systems only been down due to power outages that ran longer than the UPS could power.
I don't know where everybody gets the idea that to use Linux you have to be proficient in command line, bash programing or tweeking the kernel. Yes all those options (power) is there and more, but if my 79 year old, computer illiterate dad can use it, anyone can.
Might work for your dad but it wouldn't work for mine. He may be 80 years old but he still has lots of advanced peripherals, and loves to shop for new software over at Office Depot. I hope I'm still going as strong as him when *I* get that age. So far so good, LOL.
I put Mandrake 10.0 on my home PC and had a HELL of a time ... mostly due to inexperience with Linux.
I am putting Mandrake on another PC and want to avoid the problems I had installing it. It will be Win XP on one drive and Mandrake on another drive along with a FAT32 share partition.
I am giving about 30 gigs in a partition for Mandrake on this drive. I already set the Fat32 for 70 gigs. Any suggestions of how I should divide this space during the install when it asks how I want to allocate it?
What I mean is how much for boot/swap/usr (or whatever is recommended) and in what order would be best?