If you give a senior citizen a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you give a senior citizen a low-end Linux PC with big keyboard and a specially-designed UI, he'll be able to forward you funny pictures he gets from his friends and read Drudge and Fox News. This $499 PC includes Kiwi's own version of Linux for the aged. While I'd normally be all gung-ho about the prospect of sharing open source love, considering you can get this Gateway for $449 and Ubuntu for free, I'm a bit concerned about the validity of this PC in the marketplace. However, as a person who once gave his father a Linux PC after he filled the Windows machine I gave him up with viruses and who recently deleted a wonderfully scary bit of malware on his aged neighbor's machine, I wholeheartedly support anything that makes home tech support simpler and easier for our aging population.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Help The Aged With This Linux PC For Seniors
If you give a senior citizen a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you give a senior citizen a low-end Linux PC with big keyboard and a specially-designed UI, he'll be able to forward you funny pictures he gets from his friends and read Drudge and Fox News. This $499 PC includes Kiwi's own version of Linux for the aged. While I'd normally be all gung-ho about the prospect of sharing open source love, considering you can get this Gateway for $449 and Ubuntu for free, I'm a bit concerned about the validity of this PC in the marketplace. However, as a person who once gave his father a Linux PC after he filled the Windows machine I gave him up with viruses and who recently deleted a wonderfully scary bit of malware on his aged neighbor's machine, I wholeheartedly support anything that makes home tech support simpler and easier for our aging population.
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