dam and micha, really nice to count on your individual experience, that's what i like most in this linux environment, that people do support each other and this way things get solved in a much more solid ground. it's been some time now i want to go linux, have tried some distros (ubuntu, ubuntu 64) but had problems in the very basics and couldnt spend so much time on learning and tweaking, because i had tons of work to do and my windows was at least running all the softs i needed (of course not optimized and surely wasting hardware availability) to get my work done. now i should have an extra time for learning and googling and mIRCing, and of course playing with some linux distro. although i am a complete newbie with the penguim, i think i will try debian first. if everything gets real complicated, i might then go for other user-friendly distros. what i think now is that if i have to start from scratch, why not going with the ideal os?! i have tried ubuntu 64 but it really didnt work. the whole thing was very dodgy and i did not feel secure with it. the system was unstable even during installation. i hope debian is a more robust system, even though it might be more difficult in the begining. so the debian version i should try is this "sid" one, right? you say that debian is easier to customize (as opposed to ball and chain), but i didnt understand why then the stable version is frozen, i mean, why then cant i install the newest codecs in the stable (and "frozen" according to micha) version? this thing about running windows at the same time: is it a real advantage, both systems will run at full speed and without the danger of crash? i mean, how safe and useful is that? and just another question, if i burn this internet installation cd image, can i easily connect via pppoe during installation to continue with it? i mean, i need authentication to connect to the internet, will i be able to do so during installation?
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