Linked by Michael Katsevman on Thu 6th Nov 2003 19:33 UTC
Debian is widely considered the Linux distribution with the best package management tool, APT and one of the largest software bases (>13,000). However, the installation horror stories kept me away. Nevertheless, eager to try it out, I failed to install various other Debian GNU/Linux based distributions. Some failed to boot even after I tried to reinstall for the fourth time, and others just couldn't detect my hardware. While Knoppix is highly recommended, I decided to stick with hard-drive based distros (Although it is the distribution of choice for LiveCDs). Then came Libranet.
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there's stiff competition from:
yum
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
and portage
http://google.ca/search?q=cache:3X8Z4-VK73cJ:www.gentoo.org/main/en...
once you use these, apt doesn't look like the mind-blowing-saviour-of-package-management any more.