Linked by Og Maciel on Tue 25th Jan 2005 20:24 UTC
In my never ending search for the ultimate challenge, I decided to remove Gentoo Linux from my trusty laptop and install something else that wasn't as resource starving. Thus, Debian was selected.
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As previously noted, Debian is not the oldest distro. Slackware is the oldest distro that still is around and others before Slack.
Secondly, he is spewing the common misconception that Debian is a hard distro to use. The biggest problem is the antiquated installer that he bypassed by using Sarge.
Thirdly on he recommends using the 'stable' packages, which are pointlessly outdated for a common user and would shy them away from Debian. Testing packages are relatively stable, and even unstable would be considered stable compared to other distros' stable.
Finally he misspells Purdue. For shame.