Re: Internet Cafe: Update

From: ray (ray_at_zianet.com)
Date: 10/02/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:17:48 -0600

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:57:54 -0500, philo wrote:

>
>>>I'm going on vaction in a few days...
>>>so will check back with the coffee shop toward the middle of the month...
>>>and see if they want to stay with Linux ...at least on that one machine.
>>>
>>>The owners of the cafe are too busy to even worry about what I'm
>>>doing...to them...a computer is just one more appliance to worry about...
>>>
>>>Guess I'll go in there and just see which machines are being used the most.
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope you took the time to install browser plugins - that is a biggie for
>> internet use.
>>
>
> No
> it was just a rush job.
> What I'll prob do is setup a machine here...take my time
> and be sure everything's right...
> then go back there and swap machines

OK - I understand. In setting up public access internet machines at the
local library - besides the basic Mandrake 10.1 install I added all the
appropriate plugins from mozilla.org. I then added AbiWord and Gnumeric in
addition to OpenOffice. I then made sure these progs and adobe reader were
available from the KDE start menu and desktop icons. That was about the
extent of my additional prep.

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