You miss my point. You can't have been using Ubuntu in 1997 because it didn't exist yet. I also would add a question: Debian in 1997 did not have automatic p

You miss my point. You can't have been using Ubuntu in 1997 because it didn't exist yet. I also would add a question: Debian in 1997 did not have automatic package dependency resolution yet, AIUI, because this was before APT. So, what made Debian worth using before APT?