At 09:03 even 11/13/02 +0530, Ashish Kulkarni wrote:
I had the same experience too, but not lost any data. Debian's installation is terrible, but once you get it up, it's very stable. But it's not so good as a desktop system...the ports lag behind significantly, and the -unstable releases are, well, unstable :-)
Both the above are Personal experiences. I had absolutely no trouble setting Debian up. Also there is an intermediate category between Stable - Unstable called Testing which is pretty much up to date.
For a few pointers at Debian installation one may refer to http://abhijit-rao.tripod.com/digital/inst_linux_db.html
As for optimisation, one can always download the sources with apt and compile them. I also think there is a commandline option that will do this automagicaly.
quasi