[LUNI] Seen any good distros lately?

[Francis Healy]

--- Mike Scott <mscott at pyewacket.org> wrote:

> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [LUNI] Seen any good distros lately?
> > From: Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>
> > Date: Sun, January 07, 2007 8:19 pm
> > To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical
> Discussion
> > <luni at luni.org>
> > At home, I used to run Debian Sarge on my server
> and Sid on my desktop.  The 
> 
> Does Debian still install the 2.4 kernel?
> The Sarge build their latest stable and is a bit
> dated (June 2005 if
> memory serves).
You can build it either way.  I build my early sarge
boxes with 2.4 because they ran better.  2.6 has
better hardware detection and has become much more
stable over time.

> > hard drive died on the server, though, and the
> desktop kept breaking random 
> > things (it is Unstable, of course), so I've
> recently moved to Ubuntu-server 
> > for the server and Kubuntu for the desktop.  The
> server's been very 
> 
> Tried U/Kubuntu on my laptop and couldn't get the
> wireless card to
> connect with either one.
> It recognized the card and all, gust didn't want to
> authenticate with my
> AP.
> 
I have never had much luck with wireless on Linux. 
The best I ever had was with RedHat 9 on a dell laptop
that worked pretty much out of the box with an orinoco
card.

> - Mike Scott
> 
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