Debian 4.0, the latest release of Debian Codenamed Etch is a cut above all the distros in many ways. Debian has always been known for reliability and robustness.Thanks to it's amazinly large relaease cycle (indirectly a huge testing cycle) followed by the Debian community.It is not a Joke to release a distro packed with 18,733 Packages which include mostly free packages and yet is the almost the most stable OS system on the earth.
It now includes a GUI Installation which can be started by writing the command installgui on the starting prompt just after we pop in the Disk 1 of Installation.Mind you this OS has 3 installation DVDs and yet has very modest system requirements.You can easily bring your old hardware to life using this.I used an old Celeron laptop with 195 MB of RAM(thats what windows showed me) and 20 GB of Hard Disk and the guess what, the Graphical installation was an Oomph !! The speed was breathtaking, almost matched a P4 or a centrino processor and I can say the same thing for the post installation stuff.It was pretty comfortable to install and configure software on the system.Synaptic Package manager works as if you are talking to it,just order to install some software and it asks you to pop in the CD with the number,and its done.
Once everything was done I was satisfied with the system speed and tried some database applications on it.I tried running MySQL server over it,but the everything was just fine.(I have faced a Lot of problem with Memory usage with SQL Server running on a machine).I never faced such problems here.
We here deploy our production apps also in Debian and Never faced OS related isses.Debian Etch Rocks.
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