On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote:
*snip* > The reason why you don't see new packages in sid right now is because > it lenny is frozen. *snip* > had done some background reading than screaming 2.6.27 is not > available in sid and hence sid must be older than ubuntu should not > have happened. Uh...I dont give a damn how or why a certain package is in Ubuntu and isn't in Debian <Stick your favorite version here>. My points were based on facts. The facts stand. End of story. Can you contradict those facts and tell me otherwise? NO. I never claimed to be the all knowing Oracle. Quite frankly we weren't even talking about the Debian release process or the Ubuntu release process. My facts are crystal clear: 1. Debian Etch has an older kernel, older packages hence compatibility with new hardware is limited. ( Someone pointed out that it worked well on new hardware, to which I replied with a FACTUAL example ). 2. Ubuntu contains far more bleeding edge packages hence its better on the driver front. OP's thought that he would solve his problem by replacing Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex with Debian Etch is dumb because had he known in advance, he would've installed Sid or Lenny and then used the experimental repository. But he didnt which shows that he didn't care to go through the documentation of Debian to understand whether installing Debian would actually solve his problems... And one more FACT for you, the Ubuntu kernel has several patches applied to it which aren't there in the Debian kernel. Hence comparing a Debian 2.6.18 kernel to Ubuntu 2.6.27 kernel is nonsensical. >change my tone because you kept on ridiculing a new debian user. I never ridiculed the OP. I was OUTRAGED by the fact that a new user would be so irresponsible to go back 9 kernel releases and run older packages and complain that his system didn't support his shiny new display. My dear friend THAT is ridiculous. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
