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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"So,if you want to exchange files between win and lin it won't work."
The Linux NTFS driver is only safe to use in read-only mode, true. But http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ allows people to use the native Windows NTFS driver via a wrapper. Voila - full read and write capability.
"FAT32 is less stable, but much faster. Unless you run a server (Windows server...come on!) NTFS is bad."
Bad? Not really. You do lose a little speed, but most folks would prefer the stability in any case. In my experience, an improper shutdown (system crashes, etc) can easily cause corruption when using FAT32, whereas NTFS doesn't seem to have this problem.
Other advantages include built-in compression, and getting rid of FAT32's 4Gb max file size limit.