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Linux PC launches for the elderly
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| The SimplicITy (see the IT, geddit?) is a
| simplified desktop with just six buttons
| for basic tasks such as email and chat.
| It's set up with a Linux Mint based
| operating system and an Eldy.org linked
| email client.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1561898/linux-pc-launches-elderly
Valerie Singleton launches PC for the elderly
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| Television presenter Valerie Singleton has
| teamed up with technology companies to
| develop a Linux-based PC designed
| specifically for the over 50s.
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http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/32696/New-PC-launched-for-older-users
Blue Peter presenter creates Linux PC for elderly
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?newsid=17554
Recent:
Multimedia codecs on Windows vs. Linux - which one is harder?
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| Don't let your habits slow you down. Open your mind. Most importantly, do
| not use ignorance as a weapon to trash unfamiliar knowledge. Linux is
| definitely hard. I will never dispute that. But it's no more or less
| difficult than Windows. As it happens, Windows was there first to set the
| visual rules how things out to be.
|
| I hope my codecs example has helped some of you realize that we should
| never settle and compromise or hide behind our fear when it comes to
| software. Computers and their programs are just tools, meant to serve us,
| not the other way around.
|
| Windows, Linux, it does not matter. Forget what you know. Shed your
| filthy habits away and become a toddler, learning the world anew. Without
| preconceptions, without social pressure and without the monkey effect
| dragging you down. Become a child, become a sponge and just suck all that
| new, exciting knowledge in.
|
| Forget the Start button in the left bottom corner, forget the old ways.
| With the slate clean, learning Linux will be the same as Windows,
| probably more fun. Remember how you used to get angry and frustrated when
| you tried Windows 95 for the first time and nothing was really how you
| expected it to be?
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| Luckily, you have me and my tutorials to make the effort as pleasant as
| it can get.
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http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/codecs.html
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