[plug] distro question: 'standard'?

[Richard Meyer]

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>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.......

As far as I can tell, the Mandrake Galaxy thing is just a theme, you can
change it if you want to. This is also true for RH (unless I'm talking
rubbish), but the underpinnings of Bluecurve is Gnome, not KDE, and I don't
know how much trouble RH take with KDE. SuSE 8.2 is really nice, and you
can also give it the bog standard KDE theme. If you don't like Mdk or RH,
you could try Knoppix, and install to disk.

>Standard KDE is a MUST. ;)
>cheers!
>John

>Make lunch, not war.

HTH
RichardM

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