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've never tried libranet, because you cannot get a new version for free, but I'm currently using debian-based Mepis on my laptop and it works flawlessly. I have a compaq presario 1210us, which is an absolute b@tch to get linux to run on, because of a wierd usb config. Mepis however worked flawlessly, as well as autodetecting and setting up my linksys wifi card.