[Sussex] Debian news...

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Thu May 5 16:29:14 UTC 2005


Salut LUG!

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:20:29PM +0100, Stephen Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 21:46 +0100, Paul Graydon wrote:
> > I will admit, I didn't spend any great amount of time trying to get
> > it to work, and actually chucked a 32bit Slack install on here
> > instead, which works... Even if not at 64bit.  At some point when
> > I've got fewer projects on my plate I'll actually spend the time to
> > get Ubuntu working, but when it doesn't even recognise either of my
> > 2 network cards (mobo integrated and an SMC one), it tends to make
> > life a pain.
> If you're spending that much time and effort, why not try Gentoo?

Presumably he just needs to fiddle the kernel for Ubuntu to recognise
his network card whereas with Gentoo you lose the lovely package
management and have to compile everything from source.

Oh wait, you were trolling.

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