Webcam not working on Thinkpad E520

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:10:00PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> This is the kind of thing that scares me away from Debian.
> 
> I like it when the distro takes care of me.
> 
> I will admit:
> 
> - my trust in Fedora and Ubuntu has not always been justified.
> 
> - I'm being a bit like a Windows user: if it is broken, someone
>   else will fix it or it will stay broken.
> 
> I'd like to be braver.
> 
> How do you keep aware of backports?  How do you decide whether to use
> one?

Most people running debian stable have no reason to use backports.

But if you want to or have some hardware stable doesn't support, then
perhaps an updated kernel or other bits from backports will solve the
problem while letting you keep the majority of your system at stable
(and hence avoiding the huge amount of churn that happens in testing
and especially unstable).

Now if you just happen to want new stuff for the sake of wanting new
stuff, then debian stable isn't for you at all.  Testing and unstable
are much more fun.

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Len Sorensen
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