Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-21 Thread Daniel Andersson
On 01/19/2011 09:11 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 + (UTC), I wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. ...Is there anything in new hardware that I should particularly avoid because it might not be suppprted by Lenny? Thanks for all of the

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-19, Steve Kleene sk...@syrano.acb.uc.edu wrote: I'll explain why I want to stick with Lenny (2.6.26), at the risk of starting another best-virtual-machine thread. Unfortunately, I need Windows sometimes. I am very happy running XP on VMware Server 1.0.6 under Lenny. VMware is a

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Steve Kleene wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 + (UTC), I wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. ...Is there anything in new hardware that I should particularly avoid because it might not be suppprted by Lenny? Thanks for all of the replies describing ways

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:09:30PM +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a couple of years. When I built my first Debian machine, I had to use

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a couple of years. When I built my first Debian machine, I had to use testing

Fwd: Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 19/01/11 23:16, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a couple of years. When I built my first Debian

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 14:09 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a couple of years. When I built my first Debian machine, I had to use testing

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-19, Wolodja Wentland wolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 14:09 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacin= g a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on f= or a couple of

Re: Fwd: Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:33:05 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 19/01/11 23:16, Camaleón wrote: I have many computers running lenny with no problems at all. All devices are properly detected and configured. Note that Squeeze is frozen: it is near to get stable. What I mean is that you may

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 + (UTC), I wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. ...Is there anything in new hardware that I should particularly avoid because it might not be suppprted by Lenny? Thanks for all of the replies describing ways to check for