debian - why is there so many cd's to download?

[craptakular]

Hi,

After my recent success with Mint, I think I wanna try debian. Is there any advantage/benefit to it over ubuntu/mint? I understand the later are based of debian anyway.

If people think its worth a look, can some one link me to the bog standard live cd? As I only seem to find iso's that require a lot of cd's. Does that make sense?

Oxy

 

[craptakular]

yeh that makes more sense. Ill try the 180mb image first. So theres not a live image as such?

Is there any benfeits ti standard debian over ubuntu/mint? or are they basically the same?