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Debian on a laptop?

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Ace69

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I have a freshly burned CD with Debian on it. I have a laptop that should be here tomorrow and I am going to put a Linux distro on it. I want to put one on that I have never used so that I can evaluate. I thought that since Debian seems to be popular choice of a lot of people, I would give that one a try. I have never used Debian before so I have no idea how it operates different from other distros.
 


<< Which other ones have you used so we can compile a recommend list to try? I like Slackware 8 a lot. >>


I didn't want this to get to be a "Which Distro?" thread so I just made it Debian because that is what I want to install on it. Thanks for the suggestion though. 😉

btw, I have used Red Hat, FreeBSD and Mandrake.
 
Debian runs fine on a laptop. I didnt bother trying to install the X that comes on the Debian "Potato" Cds, Its version of X is really old and I wanted 4.0.1 at the time. I went ahead and used apt-get to update to "Woody" If your good at Free-BSD and Slack you should have no problems with Debian. You may want to try Progeny (another debian based distro) it configures a few more things for you, which saves a lot of time. Unless, you like to configure everything yourself. (I used to be like that but got lazy) But, you will love apt once you get used to it.
 
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