Introduction to Debian

[vmlinuz] writes "SitePoint has an article that I wrote that introduces Debian and has guidelines on installing it. This could be usefull for managers, new users and other people that may be interested in using Debian." And honestly, who among us isn't interested in using the obviously superior Linux Distribution against which there can be no other contenders? (Oh dear god don't flame me! It's a joke people!)

Comments

Re:Debian GNU/Linux

[pu33y]

Comments like that make me glad to be a BSD user.

And who the J. Average debian user is??

[botzi]

I've always wondered what reason may someone have to choose debian for personal use????
It seems that there're a lot of people(not only on /.) that just can't stop themselves once the talk is on the obvious "debian superiority"... Than again, what's with those guys? I mean, sure, apt-get is a nice app, but I don't think it may be a push someone to choose debian over another distro, however, if you have problem to find a package and manually install it, you definitely have no use of a Linux distribution, or if you have than it better don't be debian. So it seems taht the people going all loud about how advanced apt-get is, have not *major* advantage of it at all.(I'm not familiar if there're some advanced uses of apt-get(synchonized update of packages or anything), so feel free to flame on me....)
So what does Debian offer besides that??? It can't be easy hardware configuration, RedHat,SuSe and especialyl Mandrake are far ahead. Is it just the fact that the official site has no fancy .gifs(ot: maybe it'll have now that there's no more patent royalties;oPP), or the fact that the Debian team does not seem to have any of the commercial goes of the Big 3?????
Anyway, I keep recommending Slackware(the distribution with the best keyboard based install, ;oP for all debian zealots(and no, dependancies are not important)), to all my friends searching for a minimal installation, and Mandrake, to all those who want a Desktop like experience and no manual hardware configuration.
So where does Debian fit in this picture???
Oh, and please don't say that the biggest part of the www servers are Debian based, it just ain't true.....

for those turned off by the elitist Debian commune

[dh003i]

try Gentoo. The community is very helpful. Message boards extremely useful, as is IRC room. You won't get told that your a stupid newbie, and they won't "RTFM, bitch" you.

isnt Debian dead?

[ph1nn]

I mean come on, there ARE no current stable releases. Who wants to download updates all day. Slackware LIVES!

Re:The first person to mention

[Anonymous Coward]

Whine whine whine. The Debian install is not that hard! I've done it a couple times, one for each box, and I've never looked back.