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