Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. Once the installation is out of the way there's not a lot at this stage in the game to differentiate between the two distributions in terms of how they function from day to day. Once basic configuration tasks are out of the way, the two behave about the same.
Progeny adds some extra quality assurance into the mix at an accelerated level.
As an upgrade to Potato, Progeny's a nice choice. Exim has been removed as the default MTA in favor of Postfix, which has a configuration tool so similar to the script provided with Exim that Potato users will have no problem changing between the two. We also caught sight of glibc 2.2 and Mozilla 0.7. In addition, printer configuration has been eased quite a bit via both the foomatic database and a port of Red Hat's printtool to work in the Debian environment. These tools are more likely to be stumbled upon by a user who sticks to the X desktop most of the time, and to that extent, they raise Debian's ease of use among newer users quite a bit.