Jamd linux is nice, im in it right now.

Perfect desktop, now it looks like a regular persons desktop.

It certainly looks interesting. I think JAMD will be the distro that will allow me to convert my mom from Windows with a minimum of fuss and muss.

@Greywather

I wouldn't be to sure about it. I recently installed JAMD 0.0.6b and I was impressed that apt and even a GUI (synaptic) was already installed - but I woke up when I tried to install the driver needed for my LAN - card. I wasn't able to compile the driver - no make or gmake - these packages are simply not included.
this might not bother you - but things like that require a knowledge beyond a user, who wants to switch from a windows to a linux distro.
try redhat 9, JAMD is based on it - the only graphical difference is, that JAMD comes along with the window decoration aqua, which you can download from http://www.kde-look.org/i, i.e. aqua

Jamd Comes with make/gmake. If it didn't how could I get GTK-Gnutella Working from the tar package ?

Well, that's interesting. Because I''m pretty sure about that - I tried JAMD 0.0.6b again four days ago on a system, where I do have to install LAN drivers - that's when I noticed, I couldn't compile my drivers.

Ok, I checked on my notebook - make/gmake isn't installed. It's not contained on the cd either - I just verified that (at least I do have installed everything). So we are not talking of the same version or you haven't noticed, you downloaded make/gmake or I do have a corrupt version (which I'd prefer - because I don't see any point in excluding such an elementary system-tool).

"Jamd Comes with make/gmake. If it didn't how could I get GTK-Gnutella Working from the tar package ?"

I don't know, but BlinkEye is right. make, and in fact most development packages, were left out of the JAMD installation to save space, and because Jim decided that the target users for JAMD wouldn't be using that stuff.

JAMD is great if it works with your hardware out of the box, but if it doesn't, then it can be tricky, like it was for BlinkEye. If you can get to the net then you can apt-get the dev stuff, but if you need the dev stuff to get on the net in JAMD in the first place, then JAMD becomes a real pain. I think in that situation you might be able to use the dev packages off of the Red Hat CDs to get yourself started.

Thanks for the suggestion of Red Hat, but that really wouldn't work for her. She needs something simple, and Red Hat just has too much stuff. It's frankly less work for me to fix what doesn't work in JAMD (which are things she doesn't actually use, like the winmodem), than to spend the time customizing RH to the point where it'll be easy for her to use.

JAMD isn't for everyone, but for my situation, it's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for.