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Can I ask you why you like Debian? I got into it a little bit but I didn't see any real reason to stay with it.

XinMan

It's supposed to get you out of "RPM Hell", but I geuss Gentoo does the job too.

Well currently I'm running SuSE 8.0 Pro, which I like for the most part. I'm getting ready to check out Mandrake 9.1 which is pretty good for functionality. For the most part I compile all my own programs and just use RPMs for a fall back. But an associate of mine is in the process of running through a Gentoo install (a lot of work). But at the same time I'm liking how much you have control. So I might start messing around with that in the next few days or so.
Debian doesn't seem to be as up to date with packages as any other distro but Gentoo seems to be better at keeping up to date than most of the major ones. So, I'm anxious to start messing around with it on my secondary box to see how well and how specific I can get an install. Then to see how functional I can get it and how quickly all of it comes together. From what I understand it supposed to be around a few days to get Gentoo completely up and running from Stage 1 and configured to your liking. Not really looking forward to that much configing but what the hell, I like to try new things in linux.

XinMan

In fact Debian maintains three versions at the same time : a very stable distribution with old packages but with security update, a testing distribution whose packages are almost as update as the packages of other distribution, and an unstable distribution with the beta version of programs.

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In fact Debian maintains three versions at the same time : a very stable distribution with old packages but with security update, a testing distribution whose packages are almost as update as the packages of other distribution, and an unstable distribution with the beta version of programs.

When I bought my "new" computer last summer I didn't know whether to install debian or gentoo. After some googling I noticed that debian didn't have .deps(for any version) for xfree4.2 so I installed gentoo and now I'm really happy with it.

I've tried both debian and gentoo, I found that gentoo had a lot of potential although it was a little heavy on the bandwidth (still using dial-up in tasmania, australia).

I'd have to say that debian is still one of the best distros available.
If I ever install linux on a business machine, I go with debian.

Currently, I'm using 'linux from scratch' and I'll probably never go back to a package managed system.