> downside, too... like needing to be pretty good understanding german for > in-depth support.
??? The manuals are available in several languages (and no other distro has that much manual). Official support requests have always been handled in English (as well as in other language(s)). Most of the docs are English. The SDB is multilingual. Does any other distro offer that many languages? Where have you only been able to proceed in German? > And the mention of a 5th CD makes me wonder...! We're talking professional here, I wouldn't bother with less. 5 CDs, 2 double-sided(!) DVDs. > that I'm mentioning Debian here (: ) You could argue about the number of packages for Debian here, but it also has other downsides (e.g. only being stable every >2 years). > I reckon that if there was one clear 'best distro', then the majority of > people would be using it. Ehhhh, bad argument. You're using winblows, are you? Plus we're talking beginners here and people who don't want to know how things work. > I'm not sure about the comment about 'If i'm going to go to the trouble > of grabbing drivers from all over the place, i may as well install > debian'. Why? Once you need to download missing pieces, might as well d/l the lot. For some (most?) people that's not an option. And some people who could d/l still prefer to have install media, e.g. those installing more than one box. Once you've made a backup of the downloads, you're where you'd be after unpacking the media from some box, but the latter is a lot faster. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
