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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"Oh yeah, for a Linux user Partition Magic is useless. Most Linux partitioning tools are better, AND they don't require Windows"
Um... Partition Magic doesn't require Windows either. As the guy mentions at the very beginning of the review: "It lets you resize and play with partitions, non-destructively, from Windows or a pair of floppy disks."
It's true that Open Source partitioning tools run from e.g. a LiveCD distribution could have done the job just fine, and for free. However, said tools only achieved an equivalent level of functionality *very* recently; Ntfsresize (http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html) has only been able to relocate data within partitions since February the 9th of this year.
Cut the guy some slack.