On Friday 14 September 2001 14:48, Carl wrote: > > If there were a distribution that allowed you to set up an automatic > > login (with user privileges) > > scary as it may be to us paranoid-for-a-living folks; I think RH (or > maybe it was Corel?) had something called 'autologin'. you specified a > username at install time; and the system would automatically log in at boot > time, as that user. I think it was Corel...but I'm one of those paranoid types :) When I choose the root password, people groan at work :) > > with decent fonts > > what's wrong with the fonts? some web pages have pretty heinous font > layouts; but I always attributed that to sucky design tools and sucky > html rendering engines. so what if a few letters are a bit jaggy around the > edges? they're still readable. I am running Mandrake 8.0, and the fonts in Konqueror and Opera were so bad that I couldn't read most pages. I had to change them to adobe-helvetica and abi-source Times New Roman just to make them useable. > > and Opera (personal favorite), > > KMail, KOffice and various plugins installed, I would push Linux much > > harder to my non-computer literate friends :( > > they don't commonly install KOffice? I know RH installs KMail along > with the KDE option. I am referring more to a CD-ROM that has a default install that you could give to people and say, "Here, run this and call me with any problems" and not spend the next 5 hours on the phone walking them through program selection, etc. Primarily for people with one computer, a decent modem (read not winmodem) or broadband connection. It would by default set up a firewall and install the mentioned items, without all the server stuff. If there is a kickstart script or something like that, please let me know, or point me in the direction of a how-to, etc. Is that what those Business Card Distros are doing? James Spinti jspinti at mn.rr.com