Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 13th Dec 2006 06:02 UTC
DesktopLinux.com's executive editor recently decided to retire Red Hat 7 after seven years of loyal service as his home LAN's firewall/router OS. This article chronicles his trials and tribulations as he presses "pure Debian" into service, first as a server and then as a Linux desktop. Read the complete tale here.
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2005-11-14
The author barely talks about the Debian desktop experience. He understandably used the latest stable release, 3.1.
There's been a lot of work done to make the default desktop experience on Debian 4.0 something a lot closer to what people expect from distributions like Ubuntu and openSUSE.
Administration tools are installed by default (gnome-system-tools, printer support, scanner support, gdebi and synaptic) and the expected desktop apps are also installed by default (the default GNOME desktop plus gaim, gnomebaker, OpenOffice.org, NetworkManager on laptops, etc).
You're no longer asked cryptic questions during system install and you don't have to know or learn what Xorg, CUPS and even GNOME are in order to get started. There's even some custom Debian artwork installed by default.
While distributions with frequent releases and short support periods are great for testing and advancing the latest in FOSS development, it's stable and long supported releases that enterprises, governments and home users need when migrating. Debian 4.0 certainly delivers in that area.