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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:30:49AM -0400, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> The one thing I liked about Ubuntu is that it supported my wireless
> out of the box. (Using a ThinkPad X201).

My thinkpad's wireless worked out of the box, although I did explicitly
order it with the intel wifi rather than the $10 cheaper default
atheros wifi.  Very much worth $10 extra.

> 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?

Well of course.  Although there have been some efforts over the last few
years to release updated kernels for stable as an option for people that
have new hardware.

> I didn't try unstable (think I just tried Stable) so that may have
> been the issue.

Certainly unstable is very new, and supports a lot more hardware.

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Len Sorensen
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