Lørdag 26 august 2006 15:15, skrev Theodore Tso: > No support for: (The * are critical) > > * SATA Hard Drives (*) > * IPW3945 wireless (*) > * Intel AD1981 HD Audio (*) > * 3D Graphics support on the ATI FireGL V5200 card > (propietary kernel module) > * Verizon 1xEV-DO > > Pretty much all of the modern hardware on the T60 is completely > unsupported by Debian; and most of the above is supported out of the > box by Unbuntu.
A list of version numbers on important software packages on the test version of Debian-edu/Skolelinux (The Kubuntu Dapper version number in parenthesis): - Kernel 2.16.2 (2.6.15) - X.org 7.0 (7.0) - KDE 3.5.4 (3.5.2) - Firefox 1.5.0.4 (1.5.0.3) - OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 (2.0.2) Hopefully people will download the image(s) for testing[1] and give us feedback to improve the solution[2]: 1. http://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-etch-test/debian-edu-i386-binary-1.raw 2. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu When etch is pretty stabilised in November, three months from now, i'll install Skolelinux based on etch on my new Thinkpad X60s. Just now we are improving the laptop support inspired and with reusing work done by the Unbuntu developers. Some new software developed by the Ubuntu team is really good from an end user perspective. We includes that too. Important work is also done to improve the support for thin clients and diskless workstations with the project MueKow[3]. 3. http://wiki.debian.org/LTSPDevelopment There are still patching issues that has to be addressed in Ubuntu to reduce the friction against Debian developers. Debian should be treated as upstream to certain extent, and more that is done today. I believe *Ubuntu will gain by that because of their business model is based on services and tailoring. In general there are still some licencing issues with proprietary decoders for video and other proprietary solutions where free software still does not have a counterpart, and we have to install decoders and such from proprietary vendors (Flash, wmv support etc.). In Norway we also promote support for fri software and have a dialog on governmental level to make support and use of free software as easy as it is when using proprietary solutions. The government has already told us that open standards is their goal[4]. The left wing government elected in 2005 has "increase the use of free software" as their political platform. They will follow up and strengthen the former right wing party's policy that was “Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government.” 4. http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/4403/469 I hope that we can use the feedbacks and our experiences in user space to improve Debian and other Debian derivatives. Gnu/Linux systems has still a little fraction of the desktop marked. The Skolelinux project aims to get good solutions on our CDs to the schools. Other distroes has other aims. The most productive approach is to help each other to make the best distro in the world for different groups of users. Best regards Knut Yrvin
