Re: Considering switching to debian

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:39:35PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > > : 1) How "good" is laptop support ? apm, pcmcia, etc > > This is kernel stuff, what are you looking for the Distro to do > to/with it. I

Re: Considering switching to debian

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
at wasn't bad > enough, the name of the package _inside_ the rpm (where it doesn't matter to > the filesystem at all) is _also_ 8,3. Frankly, this sucks. There are some > other > issues with suse that I won't bore you with, but the crux of the issue is > that > I a

Re: Considering switching to debian

2001-03-08 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: : 1) How "good" is laptop support ? apm, pcmcia, etc This is kernel stuff, what are you looking for the Distro to do to/with it. It's there to use, I've set up a few laptops with Debian and had no complaints. If I recall apm isn't

Re: Considering switching to debian

2001-03-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:04:15PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote: > I am considering switching to debian and have a few questions before > I take the plunge. > 1) How "good" is laptop support ? apm, pcmcia, etc Very good. I actually don't have much experience with AP

Considering switching to debian

2001-03-08 Thread Jim Richardson
esn't matter to the filesystem at all) is _also_ 8,3. Frankly, this sucks. There are some other issues with suse that I won't bore you with, but the crux of the issue is that I am considering switching to debian and have a few questions before I take the plunge. 1) How "good"