On Tue, 03 May 2011 16:42:07 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2011 15:58:31 Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 03 May 2011 15:45:36 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> > On Tuesday 03 May 2011 15:07:03 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> >> On 05/03/2011 03:29 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> >> > just a simple question: I discovered the hardware recognition on >> >> > the KNOPPIX- DVD is very good. >> >> > >> >> > Is this a personal development by Klaus Knopper? Is it also used >> >> > by debian? And if not, why not? >> >> >> >> I think that the difference is only that knoppix , grml and other >> >> live cds use more recent software from unstable . >> > >> > No, I disagree. As Hans-J says, I have always found that Knoppix is >> > exceptionally good at hardware recognition. >> >> (...) >> >> Well, featuring a good hardware recognition is closely related to use >> the most recent versions of the kernel and firmwares so Alex statement >> makes a lot of sense ;-) > > And the reason that I have found Ubuntu less good on hardware > recognition is...? It prides itself on being up to date.
I guess that Ubuntu applies many patches on their own packages and also, LTS releases should have not-so-up-to-date kernel version. What I mean is that, regardless of the distribution, having an updated kernel solves many issues, mostly related to hardware detection/problems. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.03.16.07...@gmail.com