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