[Westwales] Dialup

[Alex Howells]

About the only distribution I've seen thus far which is 'newbie
friendly' is Ubuntu.  I gave up on anything involving RPMs long ago
after serious headaches trying to manage multiple servers and still
keep dependencies in a vaguely working manner :/

For the more adventurous there's always SourceMage, Gentoo or Slackware.

All the best,
Alex

On 5/21/06, Robert Savage <bobsavage at uklinux.net> wrote:
> Thanks Chaps,,
>
> As is usual you have all offered valued observations.  Wvdial was included but
> it seemed a bit off not to have a desktop interface that lets me monitor what
> is going on.  I think you're right Adrian it is a stripped down version of
> FC5 so having had a bit of a play with it I decided to try a change and
> installed even more stripped down OpenSUSE Slick.  Apart from having to find
> Thunderbird on another cover disk I now have another dual boot system with
> internet connection.  This distro is not too difficult to configure but would
> be a bit of a mare for someone wanting to kick out Windows and become sane.
>
> I am a little concerned by the way each of these Linux distributors tailor the
> system to their own liking, sort of "branding".  Doesn't this destroy the
> original concept of Linux, and create incompatibilities in the installation
> of application software ?  If the distribution requires an 'expert' to
> install and set up then Mr or Mrs Average User is not going to take to the
> idea of a simple alternative to Gates's poor offerings.
>
> Thanks for your help Guys, watch this space for further appeals from this
> incompetent :-)
>
> Bob
>
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