Debian
is undoubtedly the best tool for the administrator’s, but in recent
times Ubuntu a FORK of Debian project has emerged as a leading flag
bearer in the field of Desktop environment.

Being an avid user of Debian I though about having a look at this distro.
Few thinks that came to my immediate notice were

+ A nice and sleek GUI interface

+ A simple and elegant theme from start to end.

+ Effective usage of latest developments in GUI including (Compiz, bootsplash and many others.)

+ A lot of work has been done in terms of GUI based tools including a lot of custom applets.

+ Work done by UBUNTU team is back ported in the Debian which
include the live-initramfs (casper – livecdmaker). Migration assistance
etc.

+ If you don’t want to migrate now and still wish to have a taste of
open source just insert the disk in windows PC a nice and sleek
interface is provided to you in order to enable you to install some of
the most popular open source software’s including firefox, blender etc.

+ a lot of support for proprietary products has been provided including NVIDIA cards and others.

- Many people still use these Live disk as a rescue tool in that
case this CD looses a lot of points due to the lack of any GUI based CD
writing software.

- In order to keep things simple they have missed out on a lot of features.

- As for a live CD this disk is comparatively much slower than anticipated.

OVER ALL

If  we look at the overall aspects.

For NEWBABY it a nice tool with no cluttering at all and easy to start.

But as soon as a person gets accustomed to the environment it needs
more and then comes the problem in terms of downloading the software’s.

So if you want a decent environment to work on and don’t want to get
into the hassles of downloading additional products you can currently
go for Knoppix (KDE + Debian based live disk) and this distro can even double up as a rescue disk with all necessary tools right in the palm.