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With all due respect, Debian has been around a long time, and is thus in it's own league. It does have derivatives that are based on it however, such as Progeny, Knoppix etc.
For a 'stable' installation, you'll have the choice of five kernels, ranging from a vanilla (standard) 2.2 kernel, to a ide/pci only kernel, a compact kernel with many of the lesser-used drivers removed, and a 2.4.(18 ?) kernel.
On a related note, I would recommend tracking the 'testing' branch if the installation is not for a production server - just install a stable system, then run apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade - preferably outside of X.
I would say yes to 3.0r3, it is a great balance between stability and bleeding edge.
I would have to agree with mjrich, Debian is not like distros, distros are like Debian.
yes X and a windows manager are available, just 'apt-get install xxxx' for both. (at least thats how I did it)
You are much better off using the Debian "Sarge" installer found here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ It comes with your choice of kernel 2.4.27 or 2.6.8. Debian stable is very out of date at this point. If you download the netinst CD, it will install a basic text-only system, then it will guide you through downloading everything else you need.
Yes -- if you have a good cable/ADSL connection, definitely give the new Sarge 'netinst' image a go as suggested by m_yates. You'll have a cleaner system, as there'll only be the packages you want on it.
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