[PAR35]

Give him a CD with Puppy on it and tell him to do a full install. Should solve the problem.

And yes, distros are proprietary. The kernel isn’t.

http://www.puppylinux.com/

No matter how much a piece of junk they might have given him, Puppy should work. You need a real computer for something like Ubuntu.

http://distrowatch.com/

[molson209]

Give him a CD with Puppy on it and tell him to do a full install. Should solve the problem.

does it even have a CD drive ?