[LUNI] Seen any good distros lately?

[Martin Maney]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:19:39PM -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
> Does Debian still install the 2.4 kernel?

Sarge *could* install either, though you had to ask for 2.6 if you
wanted to get it in the initial install.  IIRC Etch is all 2.6.

> The Sarge build their latest stable and is a bit dated (June 2005 if
> memory serves).

Depends on what you want.  I can't imagine living with the frequent
version churn of Fedora, in part because my perception has always been
that version upgrades of RH tend to be excessively exciting.  For
servers, I prefer the peaceful stability of Debian's more stately
progress (though the next generation may well end up with Ubuntu 6.06 -
that's how it's looking at the moment, anyway).  That same slow but
stable gait did get a bit annoying on desktops, and those are all
Ubuntu (still 6.06) here these days.  My hands-on laptop experience has
been limited to one older Dell (I8000) on which Ubuntu has worked
splendily since, IIRC, its first release.  Well, maybe a bit less
splendily at first, but to me the laptop is what you use when a real
computer isn't convenient, so I'd never developed great expectations. :-)

> 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.

Laptops have amazingly variable milage.  :-(

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