[Gllug] Re: Debian hopeless

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Garry Heaton announce to the hordes:
> 
> >   I have had a network card driver module demand the I/O address and IRQ >
> > as set for a card, refuse to accept the known settings used previously,
> > but then install the module after the settings I entered had been deleted.
> 
> I'm obviously wasting my time, then, as I'm looking for a distro to
> recommend to students. With Debian we'd end up spending half the course
> getting the hardware working.

Use Knoppix, it's bootable for a quick demo, it's installable, it's debian
based so when it IS installed you can do all the apt-gettery stuff and it's
excellent at hardware config...
:)
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