[ale] Distro for Mom?

[griffisb at bellsouth.net]

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> From: Vincent Fox <vf5 at plm.gatech.edu>
> Date: 2004/08/05 Thu PM 04:19:56 EDT
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Distro for Mom?
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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.