On Wed, Mar 18 2009, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote:
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
The second machine is at my clinic and I cannot afford to mess with it too much. It's still running kubuntu 8.04 and is not much trouble but I'd rather run one distro on both my main machines.
If you're trying to get rid of driver issues or configuration / broken packages then Debian isn't the best choice for you. Yes Lenny is good but its like almost a billion years behind todays most bleeding edge packages - the most essential of them all is the kernel and the drivers which you so dearly need for your wifi card. If thats not an issue, please do go ahead using Debian.
Considering that Lenny was just released, and that it released with 2.6.26, your hyperbole just reduced your credibility in my eyes. As of this writing, 2,6,29 is not yet out, so yes, a couple of releases of the kernel old, but that is a far cry from how you portray it.
The problems mentioned should be avoidable with Lenny, and this is what we were trying to establish before you brought your mostly unsubstantiated opinions into the discussion;
Now, the facts can be ascertained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
Debian seems to be distributing a newer kernel than RHEL, Centos and Slackware, and is one version behind Fedora, Ubuntu, and Gentoo.
The original poster's problem, BTW, can be resolved if he downloads the non-free firmware, puts them under a firmware/ directory on a USB key, and tells the installation process to look for the firmware. Nothing to do with Debian having 'billions' of year old software.
manoj