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 have to say debian was a relatively easy install for me - tho only catch is X configuration (you really need to have your monitor specs to hand)- oh and setting up your partitions (but again, if you've had to play with partitions before you'll work it out). After using this excellent OSnews walkthrough I had a 'stable' distro up in no time... a quick fiddle with the sources.list in /etc/apt/ and a one line apt command and you have a sid install as good as done. Look ma no hands!
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016
The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough