[ale] Distro for Mom?

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Vincent Fox wrote:

> 
> Any distro under the hood is fine, worried about the paint job.
> 
<<snip>> 
> I know I could sit and screw around with an existing desktop and come
> up with something, I was just hoping someone had already done so to
> save my lazy ass the trouble.

I'm not sure that "lazy" is a correct operative word. Given the near 
infinite variety of software available, you need to be able to reduce the 
decision space to a useful size mucho quickly. Starting close to your 
final stop make for fewer possible errors.

Fussing aside, looking at one or more of the mini-cdrom distributions may 
give you the lead you need. Good hunting! 

> 
> > Distro slut - that's me!!! I don't think you can go wrong with ANY recent distro. I'm using SuSE 9.0 Pro on one desktop, and Debian Testing on a second (from a hard disk install). I've also used Mandrake and Redhat.
> > 
> > I kind of like SuSE for stability. It just works. I had more problems with Mandrake, but that was probably due to me (it was my first foray into Linux). I also really like Debian when you cheat and use Knoppix for the installation. There is something really cool about being to upgrade all your packages through synaptic or just typing in apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > 
> > So - whatever you feel comfortable supporting is probably your best bet.
> > 
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