Star Linux on Laptops Part II: Libranet 2.8.1
Linked by Tyler Bancroft on Wed 18th Feb 2004 20:35 UTC
Debian and its clones 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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Great review on a great distro
by TheDude on Thu 19th Feb 2004 01:09 UTC

I bought Libranet 2.7 last year and it has been the one out six distros I've bought (different versions of Redhat, SUSE,& Mandrake) that I actually feel I've gotten my money out of. Reading this review makes me wonder if Libranet will give me a discount for a repeat customer ;)
Anyway, good review. Particularly liked the ACPI troubleshooting. How abotu apt-getting 2.6 and giving it a whirl?