[HLUG] Simple Linux distro

[Tim Spivey]

Hello all

My mother in law asked me to have a look at
http://www.ordissimo.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175&Itemid=207&lang=en
and
see  what I thought, it looks a bit overpriced to me.  I think I could do
better getting a cheap laptop and putting a distro of Linux on it which has
a very simple frontend that I could configure for her.  Does anyone know of
any Linux distros which allow the creation of a simple, unbreakable (!)
frontend?

Thanks

Tim