John Kennedy пишет:
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 16:11:35 Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure.
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough.
Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron picks it up?
I'd be glad of any advice.
Anne
As much as I like CentOS, I tend to agree with the other posts. I don't think it is the right distro for non techies. I set up my in-laws with Linux Mint (running KDE, of course) and they could even handle installing the codecs and other non OSS stuff. Mint is a nice distro based on Ubuntu. John
I second that. Mint is my choice of a linux desktop distro. As much as I like CentOS, I tend to use it on servers, and, only rarely, on manageable workstations.
But if it's easier for you to maintain just one-flavor distro, stick with CentOS, either way you will be a winner :-)
Alexx