[vox] Grandma's Distro

[Shwaine]

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Richard Crawford wrote:

> What would you all consider to be the best distribution for this sort of
> thing?  I'm leaning toward CentOS or White Box Enterprise Linux, since
> they're both based on Red Hat Enterprise, and should have the same sort of
> release cycle, making it less volatile than Fedora, and such a system would
> be easy for me to maintain remotely.  But I'm wide open to suggestions.
>

Personally, I saw go with the distribution that you feel most comfortable 
administrating that can be easily, by you, set up to do the tasks your 
grandmother requires. When it comes to having Linux for a novice user who 
isn't going to administrate the machine, all that really matters is 
setting up the UI for the target person and this can be accomplished with 
a variety of distributions. More important is your comfort level with the 
remote administration, hence my suggestion to go with what you like in 
that arena.