On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Praveen A <prav...@gmail.com> wrote: > No. I was explaining to the right person, who did not do proper > homework to understand why debian unstable did not have 2.6.27 kernel.
So what you're saying is basically the SAME that I've said. Debian is BEHIND Ubuntu in terms of including the most bleeding edged software. SO theres a good chance that Ubuntu will support your hardware out of the box and Debian wont. HENCE, Etch is a stupid choice for someone to install because his hardware isn't supported because Etch is ANCIENT. Another end user example of how Debian is lagging behind Ubuntu and hence my point stands, Debian Sid installs gnome 2.22.3 while gnome-panel is stuck at 2.20.?? in the unstable repository. So, to get the shiny new "world clock" in the gnome-panel one has to dig through the experimental repository. This "feature" was available in Ubuntu around 8.04 or even before that. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
