> Or i reccomend slackware if they are more interested in learning. only after > they are used to linux do i reccomend debian as a "reward" for getting the > hard stuff done first(at least in the slackware users). I was suprised how > many people at my last job chose slackware despite my clear warnings that > it was a very manual distribution. and these were people that didn't even > know the word/term/name "Linux" 6 months earlier.
At what point would you consider somebody "ready" to be rewarded with Debian? What level of knowledge, or what length of experience, would separate those not-yet-ready from those-who-are-ready?