A new computer aimed at people aged over 60 who are unfamiliar with PCs and the internet has been unveiled in the UK. The simplified desktop – called SimplicITy – has just six buttons directing users to basic tasks such as e-mail and chat. Watch the video on this BBC news item and then watch the other video, and follow the comment and discussion here.
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The software is ELDY software available, as is all open source software, is FREE and available from http://www.eldy.eu/ It is likely able to run on any relatively recent personal computer, say made in the last three or four years. Drivers for LINUX computers are now fairly well available. I loaded the latest version of Ubuntu (the most common linux distribution on a five year old computer and have never had a single problem – lots easier than my other new computer running Vista.