[ale] easy first distro for a non-linux person?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 26 June 2003 02:54 pm, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> Greetings Ale
>
> I'm trying to help out someone who is not an admin set up a linux box to
> run a small, inter-office application that she's going to write.
>
> I'll be helping her set up the server so I can lock it down, but after
> that it will be hers to manage.  So what are your favourite distros for
> total newbies who want a graphical interface to manage users and
> software packages?  I'm interested in ease of use followed closely by
> not flagrantly ignoring basic security as much as possible with an
> Xwindows environment.
>
> RH is the distro I know best, but from the command line, so I don't know
> how its user and package management apps compare to other distros. If
> there's something easier to use I'd like to hear about it.

Any distribution with webmin installed.  I think Mandrake has it.  I don't 
think RH does.  I don't know about SuSE.  I bet Debian does.

Mandrake also has reasonable console GUI tools, as do RedHat and SuSE.  But 
I think webmin, a browser based GUI tool, is the best one I've seen for 
server admin.

Michael

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