No Debian insult intended, but since FC was being installed on the laptop originally a project based on FC would have been the best choice. the only one I really know off is the cobind desktop and that would no be my choice for a laptop. If he had a desktop based on FC2 he could have had familiarity and the tools he already knew off. The "unfortunately" is that it is unfortunate that FC has not really produced any projects targeting the desktop. These all seem to come from debian or slackware. Naturally anyone changing from one distro to another has to learn all the variations and quirks all over again. After all Redhat as a history of doing things a little differently. Actually, Most of my desktops are debian based, as I need the hardware support of Kernel 2.6 and the newer tools too. The slackware distros are falling too far behind, which is really sad as I like the way things are laid out in slackware.
Unfortunately? What's wrong with debian?!!
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