Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-02 Thread Edward Murrell
Ben, this is generally directed at the whole thread, but I had to reply to someone. It's going to be Debian. For a variety of reasons, Xandros and Libranet are not really doable. The problem is not the install. I'll be doing that, and I'm well capable of doing so. The question is which packages.

Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Edwards
I would go for Debian and install it for them. Once installed debian is a breeze (stick to woody and let them loose on aot-get/apt-cache). The best bit of advice I have heard for newbees is use the distribution your mates use (then when you have got the hang of that make your own judgment). T

Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:37:26AM +0200, sturla wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > >> > >>If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say RedHat, that's > >>where I started. > >>RedHat 9 has a great installer and contains anything a normal user > >>wi

Re: Debian for Joe Average

2003-10-01 Thread sturla
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: David Palmer. wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:49:13 +0200 Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 02:31, Tom wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:19:06AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote: