[ale] Simple Desktop Distro for Remote Windows user

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:

> >
> > Be aware, if you go the RH route, that RH 9 is the last version of RH as a
> > desktop release.  RH in the future will only be a mucho dinero enterprise
> > server version.  RH will be providing much of the personpower for the fedora
> > project.  Fedora will replace redhat.  It will be a completely free and open
> > desktop OS.  It is intended to be more cutting edge and less stable that the
> > costly RH releases.
> >
> > Michael
>
> I had thought about Fedora - but it looks like General Availability is November 3rd. I'd like to have the laptop in, OS installed, dial-up networking tested, and the latest stable releases of OpenOffice, Gimp, Scribus and GnuCash up and running. Goal is to get it out in one to two weeks max.
>

Have you tried out gentoo? It works great for desktops. Emerge is awesome
for keeping packages up to date.

> While I'd like to test out Fedora, I don't want to FedEx a laptop running Fedora Test 2 release. Upgrading to General Availability over dial-up wouldn't be fun. (hmmmm, I could cut an ISO, mail it and talk her through an upgrade if necessary)
>
> Have you tried Fedora? Is it stable as a general purpose desktop package? That still leaves me needing simple to understand user guides - but there might be a way around that if it is very close to Red Hat in look and feel.
>
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