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Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> In article <c0.9u.2D7HPW$0Bw@maximus.summerfield.network>:
> |I do think, though, you'd do well to buy a Cd with book.  While it's
> |    possible to installed it from the net, it's decidedly difficult for a
> |    novice. There are several choices at good technical bookshops. While
> 
> Yes, and also consider this: if you download from the Net, you will
> have to put the distribution somewhere prior to installing. That's disk
> space that you could be using for your system. And you have to keep it
> or back it up in case you want/have to reinstall. The Net's good for
> picking up errata though.

The above resulted from my comment on the appropriateness
of the Debian distribution for Linux newbies, so I shall
clear a few things up.

There seems to be a misconeception that Debian is not
available on CDs.  To the contrary, there are many CDs
out there with Debian on them, some of them are dedicated
to Debian.  There's also an official CD, released by
I-Connect, the company that hosts some of the debian.org
machines.

And the installation documentation are at least avaiable
on the CDs and IMHO they're excellent.  There may even be
hardcopies out there but I cannot comment on that as I
haven't bought any of those.

As far as updates from the net is concerned, Debian has
a very nice way of constructing system upgrades.  There
are so called "methods" from which one can choose the
particular media to obtain the binary upgrades from, e.g.,
harddisk, cdrom, and my favourite, ftp.
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