Re:Is Debian for everyone? - my anecdote (Score 1)

I was trying to make a usable machine out of a Pentium-266Mhz (2G HD) donation. It came with w95 and ie3.0 (in japanese!) My sister had just moved to Japan and desperately needed to be able to email parents and boyfriend. After giving up on finding a legal copty of w98 (in English) I thought hell. Let me try linux - can't be any worse. After downloading and attempting to install RH, Peanut (don't ask) and SuSE I finally found Debian was the only distro I could figure out how to make fit on such a small system. Something about the mantra stability-stability-stability made it seem like the solution for putting on a pc thatn I couldn't check on regularly but needed to be dependable. In six months I have yet to regret my choice.