On Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:34:08 Mark Allums wrote: > The most noticeable difference to me has been the lack of drivers. You are > pretty much on your own finding drivers for things. Debian supports older > hardware quite well, but there is usually a long wait for it. > > Upgrades from release to release are more tricky than Ubuntu. It is > sometimes easiest to just install the new version "clean". > > If you run packages from Testing (starting, say 6 months after a release), > go all out in Testing . Mixing distributions leads to heartbreak. Ditto > Sid. IF you run things from Sid, you're better off running a full Sid > system rather than a mixed system with some packages from Testing and some > from Sid. > > The only things to get from Experimental are possibly the latest iceweasel, > or a new kernel. But wait on the latter until the kbuild package is > released, if you are going to need the kernel headers to compile hardware > drivers (the classic example being nvidia-glx kernel module). The headers > depend on linux-kbuild, and the kernel guys often don't get around to > packaging it right away. > > I'm sure there are people with better advice, Keep it coming, guys!
Thanks Mark, that is some good info. The only proprietary driver I had to install was for the wireless, which I got from Dell. The laptop uses an Intel graphics chip (I forget which one), but there was a bug with the drivers in one 'buntu version (again I forget, might have been 10.04) which just about drove me nuts until it was fixed. I bought this laptop in early 2009,so it is by no means "new". Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201301241149.59733.mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net
