[Gllug] Advocacy required.

[Darran D. Rimron-Molloy]

> Can't help but at the risk of starting another argument, if he is wanting
> to see easy of use and installation then can I suggest Mandrake as it is
> particularly fluffy, hardware detection seems to work well and
> installation
> problem free.  Although, if he has been given an old machine then maybe a
> graphical installer will be too memory intensive.
>
> I guess if someone is going to set it up for him then you could choose any
> distro but I expect part of the review might be ease of installation and
> configuration.

Personally, I'd probably opt into DeadRat 7.2 for ease of install, I have a
compaq laptop which was a complete BASTARD to install, nothing would get the
graphics working at greater than 800x600 on an out of the box install,
DeadRat 7.2 got graphics, sound, everything working with no extra
tweakery.... (needless to say I promptly wiped it and went back to my
home-brew install based on Redhat7.1... but it was a worthwhile test)

	-Darran



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