[Gllug] Re: Debian hopeless

[Rich Walker]

Garry Heaton <garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>>   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 a "debian-with-frontend" variant, like the CD version of gentoo, or
Knoppix. Or, of course, recommend stable.

What is the course?

cheers, Rich.


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