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

[J.M. Taylor]

Yeah, I intend to assist my friend with the setup for that exact
reason...well, honestly, I'll be setting the box up initially the way I
set my own machines up (ie, locked down as tight as they'll go), and I'll
be talking to her office's network admin about some protection from the
firewall since this is internal-only. I just want to make sure she can
update mysql packages when they come out with new versions, which they
always do. And add a new users if she needs to.

:)

Thanks to all for the input!
jenn

Transam said:
> 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
> bob at verysecurelinux.com               [Please use for email to me]
> http://www.verysecurelinux.com        [Network&Linux/Unix security
> consulting] http://www.realworldlinuxsecurity.com [My book:"Real World
> Linux Security 2/e"] Quality Linux & UNIX security and SysAdmin &
> software consulting since 1990.
>
> "Microsoft: Unsafe at any clock speed!"



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