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First take of Debian stable surprised me to see they're running a 2.2 
kernel.  We're talking two kernel generations back?  I was quite 
surprised by this.

The install is reminiscent of Slack.  I would never recommend it for a 
novice.  It's not got the polish of Mandrake, SuSE or Red Hat.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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