Re: Woody vs Sarge vs debian variants on older equipment

2005-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 21:00, Juraj Ziegler wrote: > Personally, I would go with Sid. I'm running it on all desktop-class > machines (2 notebooks, one desktop). Note that sid is likely become a lot more unstable (literally) when sarge is released as some major changes are implemented. The past ye

Re: Woody vs Sarge vs debian variants on older equipment

2005-05-10 Thread Juraj Ziegler
dbp lists wrote: I've run woody on a server at home for years now and have enjoyed just using it. I've read, however, that if I'm going to go with straight debian on a laptop - it's better to go with Sarge. I'm pretty confused now. Antoher thing I'm not sure about is if I should go with kernel

Re: Woody vs Sarge vs debian variants on older equipment

2005-05-10 Thread dbp lists
> The main difference is in how the kernel supports your hardware. The Woody > installer uses a fairly ancient kernel which may not support your > hardware properly and cause problems during the installation. > The RC3 version of the installer for Sarge [1] has a choice of either the > 2.4.27 or 2.

Re: Woody vs Sarge vs debian variants on older equipment

2005-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 18:24, dbp lists wrote: > I've run woody on a server at home for years now and have enjoyed just > using it. I've read, however, that if I'm going to go with straight > debian on a laptop - it's better to go with Sarge. > I'm pretty confused now. Antoher thing I'm not sure

Woody vs Sarge vs debian variants on older equipment

2005-05-10 Thread dbp lists
Hi folks... I just purchased a 570E thinkpad (PIII 500MHz) last week. As well as a Cisco 340 Aironet wireless card. I'm hoping to install linux on it and am trying to do as much homework as I can before they get here. I've searched a lot on the topic of installing debian on the 570E and have fo