On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:10:21 +0200 Marius Gavrilescu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joe <[email protected]> writes: > > > Here's my usual recommendation: try the latest Knoppix Live DVD. If > > that drives all the parts of the laptop properly, then Debian will, > > though you may need to do a bit of work. > > Why use a Knoppix Live DVD instead of a Debian Live system? > See http://live.debian.net/ for details about Debian Live. Because, in my experience, Knoppix deals better with recent real-world hardware than out-of-the-box Debian. That's where the effort goes in creating Knoppix, there's no attempt to deal gracefully with upgrades, which is a vital part of Debian. A lot of the Debian development effort goes into making upgrades first of all possible at all, then relatively painless. Knoppix aims for one-off, non-upgradeable versions which work on nearly any hardware, including very new computers, and so tend to use more recent kernels (on release) than even Debian sid. A minor example: some years ago, I bought a mobile Internet dongle (actually got it free, just postage payable) and expected it to work on Windows, which it did. For Debian (including Ubuntu) I had to track down the usb-modeswitch software before it had got anywhere near Debian sid, decide that it was trustworthy, and find out how to use it. I discovered after this that the dongle already worked in the latest Knoppix, which for some reason I hadn't tried. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
