On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:55:15PM -0800, Forrest English wrote: > > !! Why abuse your friends by starting them out on an inferior product and > then making them *relearn* how to do things the Debian way. Be a real > friend and help them start off with the > !! *right* distribution. > !! > !! John > > or you could get down off your high horse... > > realize that linux, is still linux. all of those still have a lot of > debian's good parts there, basically with some gui config tools, which are > good for the handholding that some people need in the beginning (although, > i balk at the idea of corel). i've gone redhat > mandrake > storm > > debian. i like debian a lot. but, i still recommend mandrake or storm > to people that i can't personally help all the time to do things "the > right way". > > what is it about debian that inspires such zealotry? > > -- > Forrest English > http://truffula.net > Hear! Hear! Case in point. I just used a Debian install (rescue) disk to save my SuSE install. What! you say. As pointed out, Linux is Linux, when I ran fsck.ext2 it didn't care what logo was on the CD I had installed the system from, it just knew it was Linux and was happy to do it's job.
I too am moving to Debian, for my own reasons, but there are some things I will miss about my SuSE install, may just keep one on it's own partition. So, if you have a distro you like, use it, it's as much Linux as the next one. I have a Storm distro as yet un-opened, that I was planning on using to get started with Debian, but after a few tries, starting to get the hang of the Debian install utility. Gee, that felt kinda good... >Lute<