switch distros???

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott R Ehrlich)]

Sorry for the top-posting, but a short answer to the long question -

I use CentOS at home (and sometimes at work).   A wonderful crossbreed between
Fedora and RedHat Enterprise.  Very easy to manage, and it looks wonderful.

Scott

Quoting Bill Mills-Curran <bill at mills-curran.net>:

> I have an opportunity to get my wife to consider switching from
> Windows to linux, but I don't think Fedora is the right distro for
> her.  I'm wondering about Linspire/Freespire (Freespire is to Linspire
> as Fedora is to RedHat?)  or Ubuntu.  (I've been using Redhat & Fedora
> since '98.)  I've also been frustrated at some of the compatibility
> problems (like wireless) with Fedora, so I'm considering switching,
> too.  On the other hand, I like being able to get some of the newest
> apps, like the newest gnucash, on Fedora.
>
> Eric Raymond's recent piece on Slashdot was pretty convincing, too.
> He argued that it is good for the linux open/free community to get
> linux in as many places as possible, even if it means mixing the
> distros with commercial drivers, because linux needs more market share
> in order to succeed against windows, particularly as 64-bit comes on
> the scene.
>
> The "family license" of Linspire seems pretty attractive, too.
>
> A big win would be to get my 17 yr old son off windows.  He's forever
> infecting the windows box with junk from his web surfing.
>
> My most-used apps:
> Open office
> Tetex/latex
> ps utils
> gnucash
> mutt
> VPN (compatible with my work, which uses Cisco)
> wine
> perl
> firefox
> USB devices: scanner, drive, camera
> code development utils
> multimedia (not so good on Fedora)
> gpg
>
> My wife would like to use Publisher (windows).  She might be able to
> use Scribus (I haven't used it successfully).
> Her favorites:
> AOL (I can't break her loose of this)
> MS office apps
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
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