“After a short delay I continued my tour and made it onto Debian
Etch. One slight problem though, I managed to accidentally install
the 64bit version of Etch which gave me the usual problems with
Flash and other things. These were all the same problems I had on
64bit Ubuntu so it’s not Debian specific in any way. It took me a
few days to download the 32bit Etch and it slowed my progress a
little but not for long. I’d heard a lot of stories about Debian
only being for hardcore hackers and real purists but I wanted to
see for myself. So without further ado here’s how I got on with
Debian Etch…