I don't know what he's using the distro for, but...I have my 70 year-old mother set up with the minimal desktop install of Scientific Linux 6.3. It's a Red Hat clone that uses Gnome 2. Not the latest software, but it's light on resources and very stable once I got it set up. My goal was a distro with as little tech support from me as possible! So far, so good.
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