Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes: > I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the > Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody > else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything > yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, just leads to > confusion and uncertainty. I don't know where Fedora and SuSE fit into > all this.
Jumping into the asbestos drawers... the sterling things about Debian are that it is more oldschool than ubuntu and its good for when you get sick of compiling everything from scratch over and over. For some things, I don't care if I'm accepting someone elses' defaults. I've stuck with Gentoo for several yrs now for my main desktop and would be very unwilling to switch for that usage, however, I prefer Debian for virtual guests on windows. It just installs right off, when you need a full linux OS in a bit of a hurry.
