Question for Mandrakers

[Derek Neighbors]

> glass of beer CLI bootup would :). Also correct me if
> I'm wrong but Debian didn't seem that current. Granted

You are both right and wrong.  Debian Potato which is currently called
'stable' is very stale.  Debian Woody which is currently called
'testing' is very current.  In fact, its frozen to be moved to stable
real soon now(tm).

The biggest item is that Debian is not like other distributions in how
works on upgrade. Upgrading from Potato to Woody is literally as easy as
chaning a few lines in a config file.  (actually a few words) then doing
apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade

> I didn't spend that much time with Debian in my search
> for the "perfect distribution" (Which didn't even turn
> out to be a linux distribution but was instead
> FreeBSD). Even Ian Jackson didn't seem to impressed
> with the way Debian is going after reading the
> interview at debianplanet.com. 

Debian is far from perfect, it just sucks less.

-Derek