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xmak -

Not sure who your audience is but I have had much success with kids. I refurbish old PC's for needy kids. If you like to tinker a little you can install wmdrawer and place the icons in there to give a "Start" button feel to the desktop.

Here is my remaster with wmdrawer. Click on the NCLB icon to access the icons. Once you choose a program the icons "slide" back into the "drawer". I use it all the time.

It's a shame to eat up system resources with the window manager.

Good luck.

Chris
maybe Xpde also deserves a try.
it claims to be light, even if not that light i suppose.
don't know if it requires dependencies that are not there in DSL.
It's the most windows-looking WM that I've found surfing around.
good luck
:) Xpde
How much CPU/MHz/RAM/HD/Video/etc do your "slow" PCs have?

To me, a 486SX is "old". :p

As already mentioned, once you show them the right-click popup fluxbox menu, they won't want to go back to the Windows taskbar.

Of course, the less they know about Linux, the less they'll be able to screw it up (er, be sure to do a "frugal" install).
Quote (davide @ Feb. 01 2005,16:55)
maybe Xpde also deserves a try.
it claims to be light, even if not that light i suppose.
don't know if it requires dependencies that are not there in DSL.
It's the most windows-looking WM that I've found surfing around.
good luck
:) Xpde

Interesting... Very Interesting...
Your average joe wouldn't have a clue they weren't using XP.  Though I'm guessing it'd be a pain trying to get it going under DSL, maybe if you do a full HD install, get all the dependencies etc set up, then image the drive to copy it to the other machines?

Though it's a little bit TOO XP for me - would be preferable to make it at least a BIT different, eg. cooler skins.  Something that's similar enough so the average joe (or jane, or whatever) can readily transfer from XP, but different enough for them to notice and say, "ooh, that's cool, what's this thing running?"
Don't think it would be lightweight enough for most slower machines, though.  But could be wrong, didn't see anything about system requirements.

Cool for noobies maybe, which is what xmak is after.
Oops, had network troubles and got a double post!  :O
(couldn't delete, so replacing the second post with this useless comment) :p
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