[Gllug] Debian hopeless

[Garry Heaton]

After years of installing Red Hat and Mandrake without a hitch on one of my
workstations I recently turned it over to server work and decided to have a
go with Debian Sarge.

I'd heard Debian has problems with recent hardware but the machine is 3
years old so I didn't think it would be a problem. How wrong I was. The
machine has a bog-standard D-Link DF530/VIA-rhine ethernet card, which has
been around for at least 4 years, but Debian couldn't load a module for it.

How does this distro have a hope in hell of appealing to anyone other than
the "I run my server on an old 386" brigade if it's driver database is so
far behind the times?

I loaded FreeBSD 4.9 onto the same machine without a problem. Knoppix 3.3
was equally painless and that's even Debian-based. Maybe the Debian project
should be handed over to Klaus Knopper then at least we'd have a decent
installer and hardware configuration.

Garry Heaton




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