
I considered reviewing Debian for this article. I downloaded a copy of Debian 3.0r2, making sure to get the disk with the 2.4 kernel. Everything you've heard about Debian being difficult to install? It's not totally true, but it's pretty close. I really wanted to try Debian, though, if only to use the vaunted apt-get system. I'd tried apt-rpm on a previous Red Hat installation, and it was great. Since Debian was turning out to be too difficult to put together, I decided to look for a debian-based distro.
I believe Knoppix is Debian-based right? And Morphix is based on Knoppix. I've used Morphix and installed it onto a hard drive, that is by far the easiest Debian distro to install. However, doing it this way doesn't allow for a more customized install, so afterwards the user would have to do some tweaking/clean up to get the system they really wanted.