> > Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? > Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer > hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime cycle of CentOS which > spans to 2014. Look at this not from the viewpoint of your mom, but from > the computershop that wants to sell lots of PCs to very different people > (which will expect to see *recent* software) and with (over the years) > quite differing hardware. > Kai But you don't want to supply consumers with an OS that gets unsupported before next christmas either, so Fedora is not the answer. Ubuntu LTS? /jens -- Jens Larsson, NSC, Linköpings universitet, SE-58183 LINKÖPING, SWEDEN Phone: +46-13-281432, Mobile: +46-709-521432, E-mail: jens at nsc.liu.se GPG/PGP Key: 1024D/C21BB2C7 2001-02-27 Jens Larsson <jens at nsc.liu.se> Key Fingerprint: BAEF 85CF BF1D 7A69 C965 2EE6 C541 D57F C21B B2C7