-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:24, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Pick an easy distro
also pick one that is easy to maintain. > like RH 7.2, which will be very well documented on the web. you mean RH 7.3, right? still, given that this person is new to linux there are probably better solutions than RH that will give such an ex-Windows user a more point-n-click approach to management and configuration. YAST is amazingly complete and easy to use, MDK's control panels are decent if not as comprehensive and polished. > This initial success will be important. i agree 100%, but the corollary is that continued success will keep people with the system. there was a rash of people who installed linux in the 1999-2001 time period who then later switched away from it. sure they got it installed and it worked easily right away, as by that time Linux installers were pretty good. but the support and maintenance of a Linux box was more than most could manage without becoming a full sysadmin. > Remember to patch the box. use a system that does this for you ... MDK's "lets go fetch the updates" at then end of the install is great for this. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+S9ou1rcusafx20MRAuu7AKCYyNkjoJAFtk00CvL7qLJQu3TsAACgl6zl 3/zqG+xgd7HgEYkP2+ZU8o0= =7BXG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
