On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, James Spinti wrote:
> 
> If there were a distribution that allowed you to set up an automatic login
> (with user privileges) with decent fonts and Opera (personal favorite),
> KMail, KOffice and various plugins installed, I would push Linux much harder
> to my non-computer literate friends :(

I don't know enough about what happens when linux boots up (yet) to make
that work but it can't be too hard.  I'm assuming you could create a user
and in /etc/shadow blank out their password.  Then in /etc/rc.local run a 
'bash -login user' and it drops them to a shell prompt as that user.  Go a
step farther and drop 'startx' into their .bashrc and your linux
workstation becomes a Windows-like PC.  This is all theory but I can't
imagine it being any harder than that.

The real beauty of linux is that you have options like that :-)

-Brian