
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'd just like to mention that Libranet 2.8.1 includes NVidia drivers already. During auto-detection the driver is listed as "nv", but later on during X configuration you are asked whether you would like to use the binary NVidia drivers instead.
- Tal