Debian by a French user ;)

I have just install Debian2.2 (1 week) and it is really cool.

apt-get is really fantastic and there is no equivalent in the rpm world (autoirpm & urpmi in the future perhaps ? but I have not test them a lot).

The pakages are very good but sometimes very old : why Gnome is not the last release ?

The installation is not as difficult as it is said : You can make it in the order you want and it is very useful when you had make a mistake ;)

But Debian is a always a guru-distrib : It doesn't detect my ATI Rage IIC and I have to configurate my SoundBlaster "by hand" :(
Now it's work :)

So ....
Debian is a very good distrib but I think it is a distib for person who have a permanent free access to Internet (In France it is very expensive ..). Moreover there are not a lot of magazine which give .deb in their CDROM (they prefer .rpm or .tgz... but compile a prog take times ;) That's why I keep my Mandrake in my HD. Debian for the "programmation" and Mandrake for "Office" and "multimedia" because magazines give more .rpm ... and of course Mandrake is a good distrib which take good idea of debian (menu, ...)

PS : ... and in the other part of my HD : win for my winModem :( Sniff !!