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Two Years With Debian GNU/Linux - An Average Guy's Verdict

Posted by claudecat on · 6 comments
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One uneducated Linux enthusiast with basic needs' take on using Debian Wheezy as his everyday OS for a few years, with some notes on KDE as well.

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Comments (6)

jdixon ·
Hey, you've been a Debian user almost as long as I've been a Slackware user. :)

In the end, it always seems to come back to Slackware or Debian, doesn't it?
Bob_Robertson ·
When the ISP at which I labored thanklessly in 1995 had tasked me with getting Solaris86 working, and I could not even get it to install, a coworker mentioned that he knew a well supported UNIX clone that was available, for free.

The boss turned him down. I wrote Debian onto 14 3.5" disks for my personal use that very afternoon.
jdixon ·
In February 1994, I installed Slackware on an old machine at work to use as a mail server. The site actually ran on it for a year or so until they "upgraded" to a Solaris box.
Bob_Robertson ·
I had been looking at Coherent (but didn't want to buy it, being a cheap bastard), and had been working on SunOS on SPARC systems for a couple of years. Having some UNIX experience already helped a great deal with diving into Linux.

Live CDs, graphic installs, Xorg auto-detection... Have you seen the YouTube video "Kids React to Old Computers"?
jdixon ·
> Have you seen the YouTube video "Kids React to Old Computers"?

No. I'll have to take a look at it. But I can't do that at work. :(

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