I've never understood this. Are we talking about demoing a specific distribution, or demoing a specific DE (in which case distribution really shouldn't matter)?
There's: - KDE - gnome3 - gnome2 and minor players (which you wouldn't use for grandma): - xfce - enlightenment - some others As for distros, you have really two main choices: debian-based and rpm-based. All other differences are really who's got the better-maintained repos, who has the smartest/easiest installer (from what I've read on /. the latest fedora failed miserably here), and who has the better-configured plug-and-play admin tools (when talking Linux on the desktop). Personally, I use gentoo, and find it world-class in ease of configuration and flexibility--but I wouldn't hand it to a noob or grandma for their desktop (unless I were going to maintain it--and then I'd insist). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
