Linked by Tyler Bancroft on Wed 18th Feb 2004 20:35 UTC
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.
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I purchased a laptop from LACLinux.com last year. It was a bit higher priced than offerings from the major vendors, but on the plus side, they will install and configure most major distributions. Their tech support is excellent - the two issues I had were resolved within hours (and weren't their fault, I might add). They were very friendly and continue to release updateded drivers and whatnot for the laptop components. I chose debian which worked perfectly out of the box. No, I don't work there or have any affiliation, but I am a very happy customer.