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

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

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 favourite 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.

I haven't looked at the latest from Red Hat, but I still maintain SuSE 
8.2 is by far the easiest to maintain I've seen thus far.  My current 
experiences with RH would be 7.3.  What I like about SuSE is you have 
this one gui window to do everything.  Unless things have changed, RH 
doesn't have that.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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