Hi Mark, Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013 schrieb Mark Allums: > 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".
Now I wonder in which parallel universe you live. From my perception Debian is the *mother* of upgradeability. The only occassion I ever re-installed a private box I remember is this 64-bit installation, since upgrading from 32- to 64-bit is indeed not officially supported :) Really, the Debian before started as Sarge on a T23. Its is a Wheezy/Sid mixture on this T23 and it is a Wheezy/Sid mixture on the T42. All upgraded. Also about drivers: It depends mostly on the kernel version. If Squeeze´s 2.6.32 gives problems, a 3.2 one from backports.debian.org may do. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201301271258.55836.mar...@lichtvoll.de
