debian

[Mike Coleman]

Marvin Bellamy <Marvin.Bellamy at innovision.com> writes:
>  I got tired of dealing with sound/mouse issues with Mandrake, so I've decided
> to try installing Debian (my 4th distro).  I just can't deal with Slackware's
> BSD scripts anymore :)  Anyone know what the basic "feel" of Debian is?
> i.e. what makes it unique.

To me, the feel of Debian is like the feel of (GNU) emacs.  It's highly
developed, full of features, somewhat lacking in novice features, targetted to
hackers (i.e., hackers not crackers).

Debian was first on the scene with a real dependency system, which is IMO
still better than redhat's.  It has public per-package bug tracking.  The
apt-get install tool is really cool once you get the hang of it.

Mike