On Friday 20 Mar 2009, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: > jtd wrote: > > You got it in the first para. Flaky hardware. sarge installed 4 > > years ago and still running on atleast 20 boxes - all extremely > > critical. > > Oh my Gawd where is teh Nobel Prize??!!! Somebody!! quick!! get > it!!
Your standards are pathetic. > > My hardware wasn't flaky. It was a nice Core2Duo machine. It was > relatively old by that time. Infact I had posted a HowTo in this > very mailing list. I installed Lenny instead of Sid. That also did > not work out of the box. Though after a few tweaks it did! When everybody elses hardware works and yours doesnt, It means flaky hardware. > > Without most of the other hardware components working. > > Oooh...isn't the case with Debian Stable too??? :D Precisely the point. You want that bug ridden badly initiliased by bios + voodo blob missing specs NDA for lookin at picture piece of hardware to work? use Xpee. > Its so nice to see how you can use the same words to praise *your* > favorite distro and put down other distros :) You were glorifying BSD with one piece of logic while pulling down sarge with the same. And I was talking SPECIFICALLY about stability. Without being specific about use and requirements comparisons are speculative at best. Is the op better off with etch / ubuntu / whatever? Install, test, then decide. Hardwork you know. Which is where bundled hardware and software comes into play. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
