Thank you for all those replies.. I am really excited to read those. The latest problem I am experiencing is that I have a recently purchased Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop and I tried installing debian etch in it. Most of the drivers were not detected like display, audio, modem etc. I tried posting my problem in LQ but didnt get a result to solve my problem. But I saw Dell recomending ubuntu for the same machine. I tried it and with satisfacoty result. But, I think ubuntu doesnt provide necessary packages for development in its bacis CD. Even I cant use Xwindows programming in it. I have the full CD set of Etch. And I wanted it to work well.
This is what inspired me to give that suggestion. So I cannot contribute for the development. I am trying to learn more. If I can do something new, I will surely contribute. Thank you once again Regards Ravi Krishnan Unni On 3/27/08, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > Ubuntu does seem to try harder to make auto detection of x86 hardware > > work well, while Debian tries to make sure all architectures work well, > > although given the scope of all that hardware, it may not be quite as > > automatic. > > To be honest: I see no real contradiction in perfect detection of x86 > hardware while trying best to detect other hardware as good as possible. > So I would regard the argument: "We do not detect x86 as good as Ubuntu > because we also detect other hardware." as completely void and outsiders > will consider this as ignorance. > > > Of course Ubuntu also updates their releases way more often than Debian, > > and willl work easier on new hardware then Debian as a result, since you > > can't expect a 2 your old distribution to work perfectly on a 1 year old > > machine since the hardware hadn't even been designed when the software > > was released. > > This sounds more reasonable (but will trigger the next question which > is ranking high on top of FAQ lists). ;-) > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > -- __________________________________________________ Enter the Matrix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]