Re: [LUG] Distros by the dozen

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 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've found this with slightly older versions of Fedora, and also Ubuntu 
in some cases.
> 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.
Take it Lenny is the latest version?

I can't keep up with the names (okay it seems pretty simple, isn't Sid 
always Unstable?).

Rob

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