Linked by Leo Spalteholz on Wed 9th Jun 2004 07:59 UTC
I'm sure everyone is sick of reading reviews of Suse 9.1 by now but perhaps this one is a little different. This is not an ordinary review in the sense that I don't provide lots of colourful screenshots, or ramble on endlessly about the included software versions and other trivial things. Written from the point of view of a Debian user trying to switch to an "easier" distribution, I concentrated on how Suse stacks up compared to some of the traditional Debian strengths.
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"Debian is a bear to set up."
The new Debian Installer makes it much, much, MUCH easier to set up. It's still text based, but it is dead simple. The developers have released 4 betas and are now working on a test release candidate. You can download a 110 megabyte Sarge base install iso to check it out.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
You can choose whether you want 2.4.26 or 2.6.6 kernel and then install Sarge, which is pretty much up to date (KDE 3.2.2 for example).
I encourage anyone who has thought about Debian but been scared off try the new installer. It rocks and will bring Debian to a whole new user base of people who thought the old installer was hard.