[Nottingham] Best distribution with apt for a newbie?

[Matthew Sackman]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:42:47PM +0000, Simon Osborne wrote:
> Simon Huggins wrote:
> >>I'm thinking a debian based distribution would be best.
> >Why not use Debian? :)
> 
> I tried it, but it didn't detect any of my hardware and the command 
> based install is way too difficult for me (I know next to nothing about 
> Linux)

Then try the new installer. Debian have been working on a new generation
of installer for years which is modular and does hardware detection.
Progress is most advanced on i386 and the current version (beta2) seems
to work well for others. Whilst I've not tried it myself, it's certainly
worth a look and you will be helping the Debian Installer team further
by testing their code.

Take a gander: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Cheers,

Matthew
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