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, stickwith CentOS, either way you will be a winner :-)
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