Yeah Debian is a pain to install but once you get it running, you will take your mandrake disks and flush em down the crapper. Once installed Debian is much easier to maintain (apt-get). Mandrake and Redhat (and a few others) really shield you from the guts of Linux by padding the installation with a lot of fluff. Using Debian you will learn where everything is by doing it yourself, rather than having installers do it for you. Even more important is after this learning process, you will be able to do everything from the "command line" yeah remember that? I know it's a bit stone age but oh so much faster. My router/web/email server is debian 3.0 and doesnt even have X installed.
SOOOOO if you want some help just ask I'll be happy to offer a nickels worth of free advice when I can, and I'm sure other will too.
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Yeah Debian is a pain to install but once you get it running, you will take your mandrake disks and flush em down the crapper. Once installed Debian is much easier to maintain (apt-get). Mandrake and Redhat (and a few others) really shield you from the guts of Linux by padding the installation with a lot of fluff. Using Debian you will learn where everything is by doing it yourself, rather than having installers do it for you. Even more important is after this learning process, you will be able to do everything from the "command line" yeah remember that? I know it's a bit stone age but oh so much faster. My router/web/email server is debian 3.0 and doesnt even have X installed.
SOOOOO if you want some help just ask I'll be happy to offer a nickels worth of free advice when I can, and I'm sure other will too.
And if you don't like it, write your own.
compile your own if you want to update