Problems with Debian:
Install fails on machines for no apparant reason. Then works spontainiously on the 140th try. I tried downloading a new ISO, checking MD5 SUMS, and burning new CD\'s. But then for some reason it started working and the install went ok.
First Load: No X. Greeted with a console login. Startx fails. Worse still, the ethernet card wasn\'t setup correctly and I couldn\'t connect to an apt server to try updates or anything. Eventually, I downloaded a new XFree86 Package, and burned it onto a CD and installed it. Then it worked. Finally, I was in. GDM looked nice, but a rude surprise was waiting. No Gnome in the sessions list. WHAT? GDM was there... odd. Reinstalled from another downloaded set of packages. Added it to the rc file manually. Bingo - I\'m in. Kernel panic on restart. Hmm.... Start over... Big mess, didn\'t bother trying to fix it all, and installed SuSE.
Similar problems on my other box, but it did have Gnome as a session. Good news. Crashed - I mean full on system freezes, (which almost never happens in linux) - crashed several times. Dumped it for Yoper because it had apt also.
Ubuntu - worked on the first try on both machines. Stable, no crashes yet at all. Only quirk I noticed is that it ships with firefox .9 instead of 1.0, but a quick change to the apt.sources list and an apt-get fixed that. Also. seems more responsive, but that could be from the more up to date kernel.
On a side note, Yoper was great. Fast, clean, easy. Odd thing was that it got slower and slower the more I used it. I have had that problem on other KDE based distro\'s. Any idea why?
PS worked in linux great, on wine at first, then natively.
