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

[aaron]

I would lean toward Mandrake over current Red Hat releases.

I've run RH 6.x through 7.3 over 3+ years without many complaints, but I 
helped my daughter install and set up Mandrake 9.0 for her linux system 
several months back and we have both been quite happy with it. IMO, the 
Mandrake distro has more nicely integrated desktop and media tools than RH, 
plus better RPM support from the Mandrake cooker. It also includes all the 
(teenager) requisite network clients like GAIM and, at least at the 9.0 
stage, still maintains separate Gnome / KDE GUI choices. I would even say 
Mandrake is more "user friendly", just without the user limiting sides the 
term usually implies.

I don't like the broken desktop KgnoDEme limits of RH 8 and beyond, so I'm 
also planning to buy a boxed set of the Mandrake 9.1 release for my latest, 
soon to be assembled media focused box that I've been collecting parts for.

HTH
peace
(after justice)
aaron



On Thursday 26 June 2003 14:54, 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 favorite 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.
> 
> TIA
> jenn
> 
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