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I've been running Debian in one form or another, on one box or another, ever since Etch went stable in April 2007. I last ran Etch extensively both on my VIA converted thin client and on the $15 Laptop (Compaq Armada 7770dmt), but since then the VIA has been used to compare Ubuntu and Wolvix, and the Compaq has been running OpenBSD and Puppy. So it had been a long time since I had worked with Etch (as opposed to the newer, soon-to-be-stable Lenny I've been battling on my Gateway laptop). Debian Etch really is like a comfortable pair of old shoes.

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