Ubuntu: Good and Bad. (Was: 13th December "Smack Down" Meeting)

[Jamon Camisso]

On 08/25/2011 11:30 AM, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> The one thing I liked about Ubuntu is that it supported my wireless
> out of the box. (Using a ThinkPad X201).
> 
> However debian, did not support my wireless out of the box..or I would
> have used that.
> 
> Does debian have problems supporting newer hardware because of its
> release schedule?
> 
> I didn't try unstable (think I just tried Stable) so that may have
> been the issue.

You might be interested in Linux Mint, which has flavours based on
Debian and Ubuntu (with a planned shift to being based on the former IIRC).

It runs perfectly on my friend's X201 out of the box.

I believe Mint is planning to shift to Debian as an upstream as well cf.
current Ubuntu.

Jamon
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