[Gllug] Debian hopeless

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Mon Mar 8 13:33:53 UTC 2004


On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:03:22PM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 10:24 pm, adam at thebowery.co.uk wrote:
> I think it was just a comment - it's not far removed from my experiences.  In 
> most cases, any "bog-standard" box will have some piece of hardware in it 
> that Debian just won't handle without a lot of faffing about.  My time is 
> more valuable than that, so I'll stick to distros that actually find ALL my 
> hardware and load the appropriate drivers and modules without hassle!
>

All these issues for me are solved by a simple kernel compile followed by an
make bzlilo and everything usually works fine,

if you are afriad of compiling the kernel then i apologise.

Ian

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