On Thursday 24 September 2009 17:29:18 cornel panceac wrote: > > Yes - and for those suggesting ubuntu as better for a non-technical user > > I think the real question is whether the user will do any of their own > > changes (like adding new programs) and updates. If they do, ubuntu is > > probably a good choice. If they will ask you to do it for them, then it > > would be the system that you are most comfortable with maintaining. > > +1 > Exactly. Ubuntu would be totally unfamiliar to me, and the idea of being called in when she is 'up a tree' because something needs fixing doesn't bear thinking about. As long as she is with an rpm distro I can cope. If she is with Mandriva, Fedora or CentOS they are familiar. The main problem with the first two is the 6-month cycle. > maybe the distro is not that important, and more interesting is the answer > to the question "what is the typical user doing with it's computer?" > > in this regard, i'd start at mauriat miranda's fedora checklist, and add to > it depending on user's needs. > > ( > actually, when fc6 ended it's life, i wanted to switch one friend's > notebook to centos 5. unfortunately, the (new,hp) printer didn't worked, > after it was bought because the lexmark mfp didn't worked, and after it > worked fine on fc6. so the notebook ended in fedora 9. > ) > Now that has set me thinking. She has a Brother mfp. It works under Mandriva, so I just took it for granted that it would work in CentOS, but that may not be so. Hmm. Some research needed. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090924/b145d750/attachment-0005.sig>