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 installed Debian Woody as my first linux machine, and I'll admit, getting over that hump was pretty difficult. But after that, I've stepped up to Sid, and have been following it ever since. The reason I stuck with it in the beginning was because I understand that you only install the system once, but with software releases coming out at a dizzying pace, apt-get is *invaluble*.
I've recently used the Beta of the new Debian installer and found it to be *much* easier to use than the old version thanks to its excellent hardware and networking detection. I would really like to see a critical review of that installation process by the OSNews team. Since Sarge's release is coming Real Soon Now, that would be a good way to contribute.