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

[James P. Kinney III]

>From a newbie-admin standpoint who wants to work from a gui, RedHat is

pretty good. If you set them up with the retail $40 RH9 package, she can
get 30 days of help directly with RedHat. And the printed manuals are
some of the better ones.

Likewise, Suse has a gui that is easy to use. I think te terminology use
on the Suse Yast2 gui is a bit more technical than RedHat's.

Sign her up for the redhat network stuff. That will let her do the
security fixes fast and easy.

Gentoo is _so_ not an option here...

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 14:54, 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.
> 
> RH is the distro I know best, but from the command line, so I don't know
> how its user and package management apps compare to other distros. If
> there's something easier to use I'd like to hear about it.
> 
> TIA
> jenn
> 
> 
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