I have to agree with wine, as well as adding a reason to avoid mandrake: it has really suckworthy gateway setup options. It will only gateway the 192.168 network, and if you override it it will sullenly break other networking tools in revenge. If you make any changes to config files, it will overwite them, because it keeps it's own settings in a separate database and writes new config files every single time you change something.

To install Debian, download the boot discs, then do a network install, or buy the installation CDROMs from the suppliers listed at Debian. If you ask around the local Linux user group you will probably find someone happy to cut you a set for cost. Personally I give 'em away for free.

You may also want to consider going a little further afield and checking out BSD.

I wish someone would start a Debian/BSD project sometime.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

In reply to Re: Recommendatins on a Linux Distribution by jepri
in thread Recommendatins on a Linux Distribution by Maclir

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