On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Francis Pineda wrote: (It's recommended you turn your line wraps on to 72 columns for the comfort of the people reading your messages)
> I am currently a computer networking student researching different > flavours of Unix/Linux. From the advice of my instructor, I have > shosen to research Debian. He says it's, "Really Cool" I find it > very appealing and hope to install it as soon as my system is set up. You probably want to get a real ISP instead of using AOL-BBS to connect, since there isn't a version of AOL's software for unix at this point. > 1. What is the user base targeted? Is it simply geared towards the > home-user looking for a free OS? Or is it geared more towards the > power-user? http://web.archive.org/web/20020219041410/http://ursine.dyndns.org/icons/debian/banner_a.gif This Debian banner used to run on my webpage, archive.org saved a copy. Debian tries to target everyone. > 2. Where is Debian located? I understand there are over 800 > distrubuters nationwide that communicate via e-mail and message > boards. But is there a specific "home" to debian? I could be wrong, but Debian either doesn't have a physical location or is based out of the Free Software Foundation in Mass. > 3. What is the latest Kernel version? There are about 10 kernels considered "latest," as of this point in time. Go to http://kernel.org/ to see the latest version numbers. > 4. What is the default desktop? and what others are included? None last I checked, but the last time I had to install from scratch was close to 5 years ago. > 5. What, if any, office suites are included? None, if I rememember correctly, at this time. An old version of staroffice was once included. Staroffice, Openoffice and a number of other free office apps are easy to drop into place, though. > Thank You very much and I look forward to joining the wonderful world > of open source OS! Woohoo! -- Baloo
