Dear Dominique, Thank you for sharing about lcdproc as response to my mail. For my 2 cents, I disliked the idea (of lcdproc) immediately as simply applying maintainer changes defeats the very purpose the tool declares or claims to help. For e.g. I know of quite a few people where the modem login page is at a different rather than the universal 192.168.0.1 address.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network and at times have to write manual /etc/network/interfaces rules in order for internet to work. In India, in practise this happens quite a bit within ethernet based modem/routers, leave alone cable modems.
Couple of URL's to tell what I mean (only for the modem router page mind you) . http://www.in.techspot.com/features/tips-tricks/a-list-of-common-default-router-ip-addresses/articleshow/47795297.cms https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-find-your-routers-ip-and-admin/ Add to that an ISP's settings that an elderly person might have to set up. https://bpedia.co.in/bsnl-modem-configuration/ - just one ISP's settings. And there are 244 ISP's in India alone according to December 2016 latest list http://www.dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/2016_08_24%20ISP-DS_0.pdf?download=1 In such a scenario a grandma's internet may simply stop working after an upgrade if she blindly accepts a maintainer's changes. It has happened with me in the past even though I know a bit about how things work, let alone a non-technical grandma. What is actually required is a tool which asks questions in a manner in which the grandma or anybody not knowing technology can answer. This I accept is really hard to fix :( Apart from cryptic info. what is also needed to fix is also cryptic errors which is not easy for non-technical people to diagnose what is wrong but that's a different question altogether. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
