Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wireless, WPA and Ubuntu
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:43:59PM +0000, Paul Tansom wrote: > ** john lewis <johnlewis@???> [2007-03-08 11:06]:
> > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:51:39 +0000
> > Paul Tansom <paul@???> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, not specifically Ubuntu necessarily, but it is beginning to
> > > be the case that it is better to mention Ubuntu here than Debian to
> > > get a rush of suggestions ;)
> >
> > /me weeps :-(
> ** end quote [john lewis]
>
> I'm seriously in two minds here. Debian needs a bit of a shake up, and
> Ubuntu has done a good job. It doesn't quite do what I want though, and
> takes as much, if not more configuration to get it installed the way I
> want (in fact I'm not there yet - I'll have to have a better play with
> Xubuntu I think). The main win as far as I'm concerned it better
> hardware support for some of the newer chipsets - namely nVidia on the
> motherboard (i.e. not the graphics drivers, the networking, SATA, etc.
> ones).
>
Hardware support is definately an issue for sarge, and not just on the
desktop. AIUI some hardware vendors don't/can't ship Debian because the
kernel doesn't support some of the devices in the servers they ship
because the kernel is a bit old now.
