On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:30:27AM -0600, Hyrum Wright wrote: > I don't mean to renew the age old distro wars, but.... > > I've got a friend who is fed up with Windows, and when I offered Linux > as a suggestion, he was very favorable to the idea. I'm trying to > figure out what would be a good distro to install on his machine > tonight. Given that he is leaving town tomorrow for the summer, and I > won't be around to help (except via email), is there a distro which > would be the easiest for him to use, and for me to install? > > I'll be doing this tonight, which means I'll need to be able to get the > ISOs this afternoon, so rapid responses would be the best. Thanks. > > -Hyrum >
Both Fedora and Mandrake in my experience have proven to be decent "newbie" distros. Pick your poison, either will do the job. The touchy thing in my experience tends to be the hardware more than the actual distro. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://students.cs.byu.edu/~spr/ GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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