> He is actually quite bright but has no interest whatsoever in computers.
My personal experience with this sort of person is rather bad, they can't get anything going, be it Linux or MS. We usually come to a mutual agreement: they don't care, and I don't care... If you define a clear point of transfer of responsibility you might save yourself some time. Whether you use Mdk or Suse doesn't really matter, though you'd probably be safer with either of those than another. Yast does all the installing, configuring, and auto-updating for you. As none of the commercial distros are shipping things like decss, you'll have to source an rpm from elsewhere. Google should help. > Is Suse in the same league as MDK for ease of use? Yes > And the big one - is > it more reliable out of the box? That depends to some degree on the hardware you have. On average I don't know, but possibly. > how likely is it that I will be able to set him up a useful and fairly > stable box in a couple of days half an aft if there are no problems with your hardware You can have suse 9.0 DVDs + CDs + updates from me, but I only have Mdk 9.2 as well. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
