Yes, Sir, we are missing the technical discussions as well. Drivers are a big issue for PC hardware especially new. Earlier N-1 hardware with N+1 hardware used to be a good bet. Probably still holds. Many new laptops don't even give drivers for previous windows versions itself. Not only is there a move towards vendor locking but also version locking. Yes, of course, I remember Shouribrata Sir. He may be able to help am sure otherwise you can use Virtualbox temporarily. Regards Gajendra
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Sumantra Dutta Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > Gajendra and Narendra: I guess what I miss most, is in-depth technical > discussions, which used to be around in the late 2000s, when you both were > more active. I like the mailing list better: it is more in-the-face than > going to a website, and checking for things there. > The IITD situation is not very promising: Windows with its site-wide licence > has many followers, and Macs are also coming in, with an increase in > peoples' buying power. A few of us still patronise linux (and will continue > doing so in future as well). What may excite Gajendra a bit is that since > the last three years, I have shifted to Gajendra's favourite flavour (pure > Debian, no Ubuntu), and have enjoyed it except for the past month, where I > have been struggling with getting linux onto a new Dell Inspiron E5270, and > have failed thus far with regard to getting the following to work: WiFi, > Sound, LCD projector connectivity, screen brightness, and essentially, most > of what we use a laptop for. there seems to be some trouble with non-free > drivers and the current stable Debian kernel, and even our in-house wizard > Dr. Shouribrata Chatterjee (remember him?) hasn't been able to help much (we > tried backports). The pre-loaded Ubuntu has a few of these, but crashes > mid-way, and is not of much help. I am waiting for Shouri to come back from > vacation. As much as Dell advertises linux, there is no worthwhile support > to fall back on. One is basically on one's own, when there is new hardware > in the market. > Cheers, > ********************************************************************* > SUMANTRA DUTTA ROY Ph Office: +91 - 11 - 26591084 > Department of Electrical Engineering Ph Resid.: +91 - 11 - 26597084 > Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Ph MM Lab: +91 - 11 - 26596167 > Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, INDIA Facsimile: +91 - 11 - 26581606 > http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~sumantra/ email: [email protected], > Office: II-211, Res: 37 North Avenue [email protected] > _____________________________________________________________________ > UDYOGINAM PURUSHASIMHAM UPAITI LAKSHMEEH > DAIVEN DEYAM ITI KAAPURUSHAAH VADANTI > DAIVAM NIHATYA KURU PAURUSHAM AATMASHAKTYAA > YATNE KRITE YADI NA SIDHYATI KO ATRA DOSHAH > (Favourite Sanskrit Shloka) > ********************************************************************* -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
