When I first started with Linux it was with Slackware with kernel 2.0 which I got of a CD accompanying the magazine(PCQuest in India). I was mainly dependent on the CD's which I got of the magazine since it was not possible to download distros of the web through my 28.8 kbps net connection. Then the same magazine started giving Redhat Linux. So I followed redhat right from 5 till 6.2. I learnt most of the fundamentals about GNU/Linux on that!!! During this period I heard about Debian and I set on a CD hunt. Finaly I got it of a friend in my institute who had downloaded it and burned it on a CD. I actually got only the first CD but that was enough to get me going. I replaced Redhat and installed it and have not regretted it ever since. The package management system dpkg/apt is simply the best I have ever used and maintaining the system once it is installed is the easiest among all the other systems. The one problem I faced at the beginning was that the packages were not up to date. But that went away when I started following unstable (I like to stay on the bleeding edge). One thing I should say about GNU/Linux in general is that it is really user friendly. No I am not talking about user friendliness defined as working on pointy clicky things but in the sense that I get to know what I need to know and nothing is hidden from me and Debian is the distro which embraces this idea to the fullest. Those are some of the reasons why I chose debian.
Vijay Prabakaran. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
