I just wanted to let y'all know that another mere mortal has joined the ranks of Debian users. I just installed Sarge (2.6 kernel) this evening, and all I have to say is WOW! I've tried my hand at Mandrake and RedHat before, with my latest distro being the buggy and bloated Fedora Core 2.

Here is what I have learned in the past three hours:
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apt-get is the most amazing tool ever.
icewm is so much nicer (faster) than kde.
(ok i could've used icewm on another distro, but redhat tries to be so newbie friendly that it scares you away)
apt-get rocks.
i don't have 9 million programs sitting around that i'll never use!
everything seems so clean and simple.
apt-get is incredible.


Anyway, the two stickies at the top of this forum were very helpful and the install went without a hitch. Thanks.

Next stop: Install ATI Radeon drivers *shudder*
I'm sure I'll be posting again soon asking for help on that one. I have yet
to get it to work under any linux distro.

looks like you've got the debian basics down...

http://www.desktop-linux.net/ati.htm

this tutorial helped me with my radeon, using the ATI drivers not the dri

welcome to debian....glad to see you settled for debian and not one of the debian based distros...

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Congratulations