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RE: Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'comp uter literate'


  • Subject: RE: Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'comp uter literate'
  • From: "Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:45:19 +0100

Interesting idea, particularly if I can lock it down so that I don't get
panicy phone calls saying that email's gone away and it's broken.

If it's running in ram disk and booting from a CD/HDD/CF card it should be
pretty robust

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Lidstone [mailto:patrick@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 May 2005 13:27
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Email Appliance - Simple Email for the non 'computer
literate'

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@s...>
wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a simple Linux Distro, or Windows
Application
> that I could install on an elderly (486 or 386) laptop to enable a
computer
> illiterate relative to use email ?
>

Any OS, set to autostart web-browser with gmail set as the home page?

Patrick







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