Vinu Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Vinu Jacob wrote:
Well, I have tried out three distro's in the past 7 months since I
switched to linux. Started off with SuSE, and then installed Gentoo and
now I've got Debian. Both Gentoo and Debian I did the whole install from
a chrooted from SuSE, coz I can't get my modem installed without the
kernel-source.
Gentoo I've tried 2.4 and 2.6, stage 3 - did'nt want to try a stage 1
without acpi working well, else you will run into laptop heating
problems. Kernel-compiles used to kick my temp to the 60's. But I had a
fully working Gentoo 2.6.7 until a few days ago. It took me about a
month to get all the hardware working including my radeon 340, winmodem,
alsa and acpi.
Debian - started with it about 5 days back from a sarge biz card iso
over ethernet. I had my base with 2.6.7 in about an hour. Got my modem
working with a third party driver and now its just playing around. gpm
on console is cool:). Everything works out of the box. I feel the sarge
install is the best I've seen. My temp even during installs and kernel
compiles hovers in the late 40's. Even Xfree auto detected everything
right upto my graphics card. Frame works only in vesa though. Next
version of xorg should get that fixed. Heard its on the cards soon.
cheers..Vin
Well, this is interesting, and not uncommon. I would have to agree
with you about sarge being the most desirable distro_release for new
to moderately aggressive linux system installations.
Gentoo, can be tricky. Hence my interest in an official release of
Sarge, for a group of converts with minimal to moderate unix skills.
thanks,
James
