Progeny was great.  I have 3 systems at home, a RH 7.1, Mandrake 8.0, and
Progeny.  I had a tough time installing Debian, but Progeny is essentially
the unstable version of Debian.  Installation was absolutely painless, GUI
based install, automatically found all the standard equipment I had in that
machine.  The only thing I vaguely remember being annoyed with was during
the setup, I don't remember seeing a way to turn off the GUI based logon, I
wanted to login from the console.  I would highly recommend Progeny for a
first time Linux user because it's 1., Debian based, and 2., extremely easy
to set up.

Paul

From: Dan Drake <drake at lemongecko.myip.org>

>So, a friend of mine has finally seen the light and wants to put Linux on
>his laptop instead of...that other OS.

>I'm going to help him install it. Being a Debian guy, I'd like to install
>that -- but my friend is not very used to Linux, so I thought that Progeny
>might be better. However, I've never used Progeny, so it might be better if
>I just install Debian and help my friend out whenever he needs it.

>Any comments? How similar is Progeny to straight Debian? What do you guys
>think would be best for my extremely-bright-but-not-very-geeky friend?

>(btw, I am -- of course -- not trying to start a distro flamewar...)

>Dan