Re: thinking about installing Debian

[Nathanael Hasbrouck <natbrouck@webryders.net>]

Once upon a time (Tuesday 01 June 2004 0009), in a land far, far, away, 
somebody calling themself Ed Sutherland inscribed this message:
> This is not meant as flame-bait, but an honest question: aside from the
> open vs proprietary debate, what reasons can readers give for the
> average desktop computer user to switch from Apple's Mac OS X to
> Debian, YDL or any of the many PPC Linux distros? Thanks.

Check the recent discussion at

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/05/msg00181.html 

for why some of us like debian in particular, vs. other distros.  Also 
check other replies in this same thread.  I can't really give much insight 
into your particular question because I switched from OS 8.6 to linux 
because linux was 1) free, 2) could do a whole lot more than os 8.6 given 
the same hardware.

Also, please do try to keep discussions on list.  I don't terribly mind 
getting personal mail, but it's more useful for people who are wondering 
the same things as you are if the discussion is archived in a 
Google-accessible place.  You will also get more useful information that 
way. :^)

NRH
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