Acer Aspire netbook

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 22 02:31:21 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Well debian unstable installed just fine.  Since Debian is all I run on
> anything anymore, that's what I find easiest. :)

I recently did an install of squeeze/sid on an out-of-lease Thinkpad
T43 that I picked up.

I *had* been installing Ubuntu (with generally decent results) on
laptoppy things lately, and didn't have high expectations on the
"friendliness" of Debian.  I've been using Debian long enough that
it's intuitive enough *TO ME,* but wasn't expecting much on either
"pretty GUI installer" or on what all would start up on a graphical
note once things were installed.

I was fairly impressed: they have evidently put effort into making the
installer process fairly nearly "pretty."

By far the worst thing was that I consulted wikied material on what
you have to fiddle post-install, notably for wireless support, and was
fighting through installing all sorts of extra components (kernelly
bits) from source, only to discover it wasn't working.

I then reinstalled the kernel package (which had gotten a bit
overwritten by my "fight"), and discovered that recent Linux kernels
can talk to the wifi hardware quite nicely "out of the box."

Debian has something of a historical reputation of being Not Pretty,
and of possibly needing some manual intervention to cope with
hardware.  A Debian install in 2009 is Quite a different thing from a
Debian install of 1999...

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