[ale] Best Linux distro for Games/Multimedia

[Greg Freemyer]

All,

I have a 15-year old nephew that is giving Linux a shot on his PC.

Somehow a friend of his gave him a copy of Fedora 5 so he currently
has that installed.  Obviously I need to get him on a newer distro.

His 2 big complaints are no DIV-X player for multimedia and no first
person shooter games.

i've never done much of either with Linux but they seem like
overcome-able issues at least at some level, so I'm curious what would
be a good distro to move him to.  One of the issues is an easy
software install system for games, since I assume he will want to try
various ones.

I would prefer to either go to OpenSUSE 10.3 or Fedora 8 since I will
likely end up helping him out.

Also, is there a mailinglist for young newbie linux users like him?

Thanks
Greg
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