[NBLUG/talk] Which Distro, again.

Peter Lutz plutz at sonic.net
Tue May 15 11:34:35 PDT 2007


Well, I'm going to work in parallel on Ubuntu and Debian.  My gut
feeling is that Debian is at about the right level, but so far it
won't work with my GeForce 8500XT video card.  I get an 80x25 terminal,
which I'm very familiar with, but it's not what I'm looking for on
this box.  Ubuntu does present a pretty picture at 1600X1200.
Ubuntu kernel is 2.6.20 and Debian is 2.6.18, so now I'm building a
new Debian kernel.  It doesn't work yet, as there are two copies of
grub on here and booting is getting confused.  I think mkinitrd got
some thing wrong the way I ran it.

Thank you for your comments.

Peter



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