[CLUE-Talk] Mandrake to Debian

[Jeffery Cann]

On Monday 23 September 2002 12:14 pm, Matt Gushee wrote:
> I can understand that people see Debian's text mode interface and *expect*
> it to be harder, but I don't know what if anything is actually harder
> about it. My experience has been that the SuSE, Mandrake, etc.
> installers are better-looking and more automated, so they may be easier
> if you are doing a 100% default install. 

IMHO - As a former Slackware user for 7 years, I find it amusing that some 
folks criticise debian for the same things as Slack - i.e., text mode 
install, etc.

I have not used Debian, but I can tell you that because it is the truest 
GNU/Linux distribution out there, I may just try it one of these days.  My 
only gripe is that Debian is even slower than Slackware to add new versions 
of things I think are important.  Maybe this has changed, since it's been 
about 2 years since I considered switching to Debian.

Jeff