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Originally posted by fracturedmind
Thought I was on the wrong board for a sec 
Yeah people need to check on that site if the apt-get on freshrpms will work for their distro, I seriously have no idea how to use debian, I only wish :P
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If you want to learn Debian, I'd suggest Libranet Linux 2.0; there's a new version due out soon, but you can D/L 2.0 from Libranet's website. Libranet is basically Debian 3.0 (Woody) with one REALLY nice proprietary app thrown in; adminmenu, it allows the root user to do the bullshit stuff ( adduser, kernel re-compile, SCSI emulation, etc.) right from the desktop, or, if you have an xwindow problem, you can use adminmenu at the CLI; just cd /usr/bin
./adminmenu and off you go. All the neat Debian utilities work in Libranet, most prominently apt/dpkg, and the install is nowhere near as daunting. My only problem with Libranet is that they're releasing upgrades about every 4 months; at (approx) $50.00 us, it's a little too rich for my blood. Oh well, you just edit /etc/sources.apt to point at whatever level of pure Debian you want (stable, testing or unstable) then apt-get update/apt-get dist upgrade and you're using pure Debian, upgraded to the latest software releases. I've see the claim made that there are Debian users who have only installed once; they just do an apt-get dist-upgrade when Debian has a new release.
DEBIAN- Breakfast of CHAMPIONS!!