I would join recommending SUSE 9.1. I've been using it for few weeks now. It has an excellent hardware support, it's polished and quite easy to find your way around (as a user).
I was pleasantly surprised to see this friendly "plug and play" messages. http://linmagazine.co.il/node/view/3411 Cannon IXUS worked with 0 tweaking, so did Orinoco WiFI, NVIDIA add-on, etc. Uri Linmagazine.co.il On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:02:59 +0300, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 18:07, ik wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I have a small problem, a friend of mine wish to buy a new computer, > > but does not want to buy MS-Windows. Up to this everything is OK. > > > > That person does not know much about computers and not interesting in > > knowing. The only use is for word-processors and spread-sheets. > > > > I'm looking for a Linux distro that will be the best suitable for > > this type of person, that will not require *me* to run over on any > > problem 24-7, and will have the best feeling of an OS like > > MS-Windows. > > Your best bet would be a fully supported commercial package from one of > the Desktop, "MS-Windows look a like" oriented distros. My pick would > be either SuSE or Xandros Desktop (or god forbid - Linspire). They cost > less then MS-Windows but not by much and they're not very friendly to > Hebrew speakers. > > I'm personally a Mandrake fanatic, but regarding a "computer illiterate" > operated only desktop, while currently having the best out-of-the-box > Hebrew support, they still have a lot of work to do. My 'free as in > beer' choice then would have to be Fedora, but Core 2 is not there - it > has a lot of usability problems and is not very "windows newbie > friendly", although if you do all the installation and setup yourself > it might just be good enough. > > -- > Oded > > ::.. > Accidents cause History. > If Sigismund Unbuckle had taken a walk in 1426 and met Wat Tyler, the > Peasant's Revolt would never have happened and the motor car would not > have been invented until 2026, which would have meant that all the oil > could have been used for lamps, thus saving the electric light bulb and > the whale, and nobody would have caught Moby Dick or Billy Budd. > -- The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac / Mike Harding > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -------------------- Uri Sharf, Linmagazine http://linmagazine.co.il ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
