On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:05:00 -0600 "Andrew Zimmer" <Andrew at azimmer.com> wrote: > Take a look at SUSE. It has a gui for just about everything. You can schedule and autorun updates/patches via a gui. They have a LiveEval so you can try before you commit. With Novell purchasing them they should become a pretty major desktop competitor to Windows. Since this thread just keeps rolling and I haven't heard my new favorite, I think it's time for a plug. Seriously though, I've tried SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Redhat, Slackware and even Cobalt (yech). And Slackware 9.1 wins as the most user-friendly distro IMHO. I don't understand why slackware has a reputation of being an "advanced" distro, it just works. My little gateway 5150 laptop with 4GB has gnome 2.4, crossover office/plugin (for Winders apps), sylpheed for outlookish email done right, open office, samba, cups, mozilla 1.5, mysql, apache/php, postgresql and the Oracle 9i client and it just keeps chugging away. If you decide on something else (like I did when I first started), keep Slackware on your list of distros to check out someday. Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list