Re: [vox] Distribution for an adventurous newbie?

[Paul <paulbMAPS@claypits.com>]

donw@examen.com wrote:
> A friend of mine wants to give Linux a try, and she being the type that
> she is, wants to do the installation herself -- she has a spare hard
> drive, so she probably won't blow away her data, and I've already given
> her the standard list of cautions, as well as an offer to do the
> installation for her.  Still, she wants to do it.
>
> So -- what distribution should I burn to a CD for her?  I'm a Debian
> man, but I know that the Debian installer isn't friendly unless you know
> Linux.  In fact, because I've been a computer type since the age of six,
> I'm pretty much guaranteed to give her something difficult to install.
>
> So -- which distribution?  Focus is on ease of installation and use; as
> she progresses, she will learn more, and eventually I might move her to
> Debian.  Anything bundled with OpenOffice.org is a plus, and she has a
> card reader and a camera (both supported by gPhoto2 and usb-storage)
> which would be nice to have working.
Xandros Open Circulation is pretty "newbie proof", easy to install, has 
lots of features, is debian based and it's free (beer). The downside, 
it's not quite free (speech), it's a little hard to "get under the hood" 
and you're locked into xandros' packages.
Paul
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