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 recently bought Libranet 2.8.1 using the student discount option ( I've been attending night classes at the local college for 3 years now, fixing to graduate in march). I am very happy with it. I agree with the comments about Debian's currenlt installer not being very friendly, or easy to use. Having said that, this in no way means that I was not able to use Debians installer to install a system however.
I really like Libranet, it's installer is very easy to use and the Admintool is definately worth the price. I had previously used the 2.7 free version and I was so impressed with it that I knew that I wanted to buy 2.8.1
We use Redhat on our servers at work, but libranet 2.8.1 has definately earned a spot on my Linux box at home.