On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 16:57 +0100, Leon wrote: > Dear all, > > Lately, I have been bringing my laptop to work in my office in a > Univ. My colleagues are amazed how pretty the os is (I use the default > theme). I have shown them some of the greatest features of linux like > the security issue and the vast of free software that do a better job > than its windows counterpart. > > They are interested and want me to help them install linux to their > laptop too. From my experience with FC5 since test1, I am not very > confident. FC5 is great for experienced people who can fix some minor > bugs but it doesn't seems to be a distribution to new users. I would > now recommend them to use SuSE linux but would be good to hear your > opinions. ---- If you want a 'stable' OS - there's RHEL (pay) or CentOS (free) If you want the 'leading edge' in desktop applications, Fedora is a great place to be. Any distribution that is on the leading edge is going to have some rough edges. Craig