On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:28 pm Claude Jones wrote: > On Tue April 17 2007, Kelly wrote: > > Okay, seriously then, what distro would be a good choice for the average > > home user? I'm trying to answer that question myself, while searching > > for good distros for my younger brothers to run; they both have some > > computer experience, but only with Windows, and I have a personal thing > > against Debian-based distros after the time that three different > > Debian/Ubuntu installs failed in the same way within a week. Any > > suggestions? > > PCLinuxOS Mandriva-based distros seem to have an issue with mounting NFS shares over /home. Wish I knew why. > I think you should give Ubuntu a second chance. It is great for this kind of > situations. > You should give Kubuntu a chance too! Was only two versions ago. Same results from both Kubuntu and Xubuntu, and it's a flaw built into Debian itself; defoma seems to have major issues remembering where the fonts are installed... Plus, IIRC, the *buntu series doesn't have a system for configuring LDAP clients, and I'm not 100% sure how to work PAM + LDAP manually... -- http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - Get Firefox! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ - Reclaim Your Inbox! Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
