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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"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"
FIP (First Nondestructive Interactive Partition Sizer)has been around for over 4 years. I know this because it was when I started with Linux. It can resize Fat and Fat32 partitions easily. Fdisk for Linux has been around for many years. It can be used to create partitions out of free space without destroying other partitions. What you said marks you as a Windows loser... I mean user, who is unfamiliar with or a newbie to Linux. SO I don't think you can be a judge of this. These tools are OLD and do an incomparable job. No GUI you say? Partition Magic from a floppy is just as bad. PM is a wonderful tool for newbies, that was the point of my earlier post. A newbie should not be making software reviews about advanced subjects to avoid spreading misinformation.