Howdy, On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 09:07 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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) I wouldn't consider these distros easy for new/first time users. > 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. Some distributions on the leading edge have more rough edges than others. Compare FC5 to SuSE linux 10.0. A new user is going to have a better first time experience with SuSE. > Craig taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
