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

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A problem with all of these Distros (and my beloved Slackware) is that
they all have serious security problems out-of-the-box and badly need
hardening.  Even a newbie's system needs this hardening but a newbie
won't know how and none of the Distros are of much help.  (They still
will be at less risk than if they used Windoze.)

Bob Toxen
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   -- Bob Toxen 10/03/2002

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:52:23PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> From a newbie-admin standpoint who wants to work from a gui, RedHat is
> pretty good. If you set them up with the retail $40 RH9 package, she can
> get 30 days of help directly with RedHat. And the printed manuals are
> some of the better ones.

> Likewise, Suse has a gui that is easy to use. I think te terminology use
> on the Suse Yast2 gui is a bit more technical than RedHat's.

> Sign her up for the redhat network stuff. That will let her do the
> security fixes fast and easy.

> Gentoo is _so_ not an option here...

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