[Gllug] Linux For Beginners

[stanley]

>Behalf Of Doug Winter
>Sent: 23 October 2003 10:42
>To: GLLUG
>Subject: [Gllug] Linux For Beginners
>
>
>So, I'm looking for another distro to recommend.  This is for proper
>newbies - people who are intelligent but otherwise completely clue free,
>and generally manualaphobic obviously.
>
>I'm happy to babysit an install with them, but after that I don't want
>to have to provide telephone support for the rest of their natural lives
>:)
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Doug.

Have just come to linux myself (at about the time of the release of RedHat
9), if you are willing to sit through the install with them, then anything
that has gnome will be fine as it is so much like windows, and there is
pretty much nothing that the average user cant do through a GUI now. There
are a couple of things that can cause problems in red hat though, the
inability to play MP3's and use real player straight out of the box. Both
the red hat ans SuSe that I have installed have allowed me to expand my
knowledge as and when I feel like "tinkering" with something, and, so far,
with the disasterous affects that my tinkering with windows normally has.
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