[Gllug] Linux For Beginners

[Stephen Harker]

On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 10:42 am, Doug Winter wrote:
> 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?

Mandrake is excellent for getting started. I started with version 6.something 
in 1999 and have kept with it all the way through (for desktops anyway). 
Updating is a piece of cake with great graphical frontends to everything for 
the point-and-clickers.

I have used it for servers as well but have since settled on Debian for those 
for reasons thrashed out elsewhere on the list :-)

I like it better than Red Hat and Suse but this is just personal preference 
because I have used it for so long, I prefer the way it does things but the 
other two would probably be just as good. Mandrake installation is simplicity 
itself...

SteveH


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