Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 13th Dec 2006 06:02 UTC
Debian and its clones DesktopLinux.com's executive editor recently decided to retire Red Hat 7 after seven years of loyal service as his home LAN's firewall/router OS. This article chronicles his trials and tribulations as he presses "pure Debian" into service, first as a server and then as a Linux desktop. Read the complete tale here.
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Oh boy...
by Crono on Wed 13th Dec 2006 07:39 UTC
Crono
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2006-11-08

Oh sure, I was able to easily get GNOME and KDE installed, and most of the basic bits and pieces were there, but the overall gestalt of the system -- how well it worked out-of-the-box at supporting multimedia, Flash, audio, fonts, and so on -- was far, far inferior to what those Debian spin-offs provide.

Very clever to do this test before Etch is released, right? If he installed Etch, he would have hardly noticed differences (except automatic proprietary-driver-installation, of course). But let's not flame him, dear Debian-using mates.
He didn't RTFM ;)

Edit: spelling

Edited 2006-12-13 07:41