Trimming Linux for an end user

[jnicks]

My buddy had his widows fry, he was happy with Windows 3.11 for quite a while.

I thought of moving him to Linux, but last time I checked, two years ago, even the so- called desktop Caldera and Corel installs defaulted to all sorts of servers and active ports and no firewall.

Dumb for an end user: lessee, email the friends, drink a beer, browse the web, drink a beer, write a letter and oh, yeah, admin SendMail for the 20,000 users, check the users' space allocations and get install that Apache sec. patch. Doh!

I can't find a HOW TO or checklist for cleaning up Linux default intalls for an end user.

Any pointers?

I was thinking of SuSe 8, personal not professional, as personal has less to uninstall.

J

 

[hads]

If the last time you checked was two years ago check again! All distros would have come a long way in that time.

I use Redhat and Slackware but for an end user I think Redhat, Mandrake or Suse would be fine.

I can't comment on the others but a desktop install of redhat doesn't give you too much in the way of server related stuff these days.

Hope this helps.
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[jnicks]

Thanks Hads, will do. SuSe is supposed to arrive in a few days. Back to HOWTOs. J