On Friday September 12 2003 10:05 am,=20 plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote: *v* 6. RE: InstallFest decisions (George Gambill) *v*From: George Gambill *v*Enter Red Hat: *v* *v*Speaking from experience (as a newbie) I lurked this list for some tim= e *v*before choosing a distro. From this list, I decided that Red Hat was = one of *v*the (if not the) most newbie friendly (with MS background) distro available. Shouldn't we base our choice of a distro more on the users experience lev= el? Say we have a Grandma, we certainly don't want to set her up with a distr= o=20 that will drive her back to the evil empire.=20 Yet if we get an experienced sysadmin that has been using the command lin= e to=20 do a lot of their admin chores Debian would probably be the best choice f= or=20 them. I think if we come up with three choices based on ease of install and use= , we=20 could very well cover the entire spectrum of the newbies' needs. Something like: 1 no brainer (almost like the evil empire) 2. medium 3 hardcore --=20 Augie Grayfox grayfox78 at cox dot net "They're smoking crack" Linus Thorvalds commenting on SCO.