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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Planning to install Linux to the laptop with Xircom PCMCIA network card I tried many different Linux distros (Mandrake, Redhat, Lycoris, Suse, etc.) but none of them could detect the network card. Some gave error messages and some simply hanged the computer. Since all I have heard about Debian was that it's so hard to install and you have to know details of the hardware to be able to succeed Debian wasn't the first distribution to consider. Finally, after having no other choice, I tried Debian Woody... and it succeeded to detect and use the network card automaticly! Ever since I have been loyal user of Debian Linux.