[ale] Distro for Mom?

[Vincent Fox]

Any distro under the hood is fine, worried about the paint job.

I guess one of my bigger unstated points is one that either has:

1) Simplified interface already available
2) Easiest to configure as such

I can't have your average cluttered KDE or Gnome desktop. Mom is 
about 70 and I had enough trouble with tech support by phone
(they live 5 hours away) as it was. If you've ever seen a ThinkNIC
you'd know what I mean, no KDE menu or anything else you could
wander into. The browser *was* the desktop and the home page for it
had a big button that said connect. For someone who only wants to
occasionally look up things on Google or do webmail it was perfect.

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.

> 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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