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Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com wrote:
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It may use the debian installer but either the default package selection or the kernel config make hardware detection more reliable in my experience. Of all the distros I have used Ubuntu required the least configuration to work on my hardware...Debian was one of the ones that required the most.
Ubuntu does, indeed, have a different kernel, which is really where it gets better hardware detection... Debians kernel is the one thing that really lets it down... on the other hand, it's also fairly much entirely garanteed to contain only Free drivers, with a capital F and all! Whereas Ubuntus is, really, designed to just be practical...
A lot of Debian people seem to just not get Ubuntu. I think this demonstrates why Ubuntu was needed in the first place. It's built for a different audience. It's obvious Bret that you really know your way
^ I want my other t back! who stole it! gimme, gimme!
around a Linux box....for people that don't I think Ubuntu is a slightly more friendly option.
No, I get Ubuntu, I just don't like it's bandwaggon ;) They've done some good work, agreed, and they're getting a reasonable community together... now, if the debian utnubu picks up, we'll have mostly the same work in the debian repository - we'll still have a kernel, however, that is Free (sometimes the debian kernel team are a little over zealous but hey ;).
I like configuring hardware, it makes the day feel better somehow :) Actually, that's a bit of a lie... I hate configuring hardware in windows, because that's always a complete hit or miss operation, with random bugs seeping in that may or may not be the hardware playing up... I like knowing what's playing with my hardware, and I like to know what driver it's using (and you never know how useful knowing that might be!)... the most fun recently was getting a hfc-pci card working, which turned out to be a lot easier than first thought - note to those that ever want to use one of these in asterisk, compile the hfc-pci driver, and use the zaptel/zapata configs in asterisk, the hisax driver + i4l just did not work for me!
And after that random tangent... upstairs for coffee I go!
Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk