On Friday 20 Mar 2009, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote:
jtd wrote:
You got it in the first para. Flaky hardware. sarge installed 4 years ago and still running on atleast 20 boxes - all extremely critical.
Oh my Gawd where is teh Nobel Prize??!!! Somebody!! quick!! get it!!
Your standards are pathetic.
My hardware wasn't flaky. It was a nice Core2Duo machine. It was relatively old by that time. Infact I had posted a HowTo in this very mailing list. I installed Lenny instead of Sid. That also did not work out of the box. Though after a few tweaks it did!
When everybody elses hardware works and yours doesnt, It means flaky hardware.
Without most of the other hardware components working.
Oooh...isn't the case with Debian Stable too??? :D
Precisely the point. You want that bug ridden badly initiliased by bios + voodo blob missing specs NDA for lookin at picture piece of hardware to work? use Xpee.
Its so nice to see how you can use the same words to praise *your* favorite distro and put down other distros :)
You were glorifying BSD with one piece of logic while pulling down sarge with the same. And I was talking SPECIFICALLY about stability.
Without being specific about use and requirements comparisons are speculative at best.
Is the op better off with etch / ubuntu / whatever? Install, test, then decide. Hardwork you know. Which is where bundled hardware and software comes into play.