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