Linked by Anthony Hicks on Tue 8th Apr 2003 16:17 UTC
This (quite long) article has been written by me for two primary reasons: One, to hopefully save someone else the time and hassle associated with trying out various Linux distributions, and two, to promote some discussion and feedback regarding what a modern Linux distribution should be, and of course to contrast this with what is currently available. I am exploring the offerings of MS Windows, BeOS and MacOSX, and then taking on a number of well-known Linux distributions.
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eugenia: the reviewer did not even install gentoo linux, and i don't think gentoo can be considered a representative of debian, yes they both have a package mangement system which takes care of dependencies, but gentoo takes days to install and get right, debian takes a few hours, and apt-get does not need a whole lot of changing around to install new programs like gentoo's USE variables, which is a blessing and a headache at the same time.
also the reviewer made a big mistake with YOPER, which is based on LFS !!! not slackware.