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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, george parker wrote:
OK, OK, I could have installed Debian and closeted myself away for a month to get it working, but perhaps next week, eh?
Why do you think this?Seriously, with Debian Lenny, you ought to be up and running in half an hour.
(Although I have used Debian on my desktop since the year dot...)Pitfalls - and I think these are for most distributions; The default kernel not finding your hardware - Because Debian lags other distros it sometimes has an older kernel which doesn't recognise everything. This used to be a major PITA for me with older Debians and Dell hardware although I've not had an issue for a while.
I think Lenny is on 2.6.26 at present - so maybe do a compatability check there.
I may not make it to the next meet, but if I can make it, I'll bring a Lenny install CD.
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