[plug] distro question: 'standard'?

[Sol]

Suse 8.2 has the best hardware detection of any Linux distro I've tried 
so far. It's aiming at the corporate user and is tight distribution with 
few bugs. But I think you know that! :-)

Is it best for newbies? That's hard to say. It kinda depends what kind 
of newbie you're dealing with. It may not be the best for the typical 
'doze desktop refugee. I've heard good things about Xandros: 
http://www.osforge.com/news/001205.html But I haven't tried it yet.

cheers; sol


John Knight wrote:

> G'day all!
>
> A friend of mine is considering Linux and I don't want her to have a 
> redhatted or mandraked version, if you know what I mean. ;) RH 7.3 
> wasn't too bad, because KDE had a standard menu included, with a 
> standard desktop, but everything onwards is bluecurved, and mandrake 
> haven't had a  standard desktop for years. SuSE doesn't look too far 
> from it, the last version I used of SuSE was 7.3, althougha little 
> unstable, it could be reconfigured for standard KDE menus, etc. Can 
> you still do that in 8.2? Are there any other distributions that 
> anyone would recommend that doesn't have a command line based 
> installation program (ie. Debian)? I don't want to put her off you 
> see.......
>
> Standard KDE is a MUST. ;)
> cheers!
> John
>
> Make lunch, not war.
>
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