On Oct 28, 2016 5:36 AM, "pixel fairy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has come up a few times, so heres a thread discuss it. > > for whatever reason, supported versions of fedora are not working with qubes. dont know if this is fixable. > > debian looked good at first, but its hardware support is too many generations behind. tried switching sys-net to debian, and it couldnt find my intel wifi from 2010. i understand ubuntu has a licencing issue, and thus, can not be used. > Are you sure you just do not have to look in the non free repos and install the wifi stuff correctly? Usually, because manufactures choose not to open source drivers there are binary blobs that the source never gets released for and the debian defaults will not use this driver...
Usually they are in repos you have to enable after install. Aka non-free > would centos work, or is that also too far behind? > > arch and alpine have been brought up as alternatives. anyone try those? do they do a good job with hardware compatibility and vulnerability patching? > Arch Linux is rolling release, so all software is latest after it gets through community testing. Even the kernel is latest and just vanilla-linux with a log level change patch. A lot of hardware compatibility is directly in the kernel or loadable modules so you do have some help here...but since wifi has this blob...it is separate. Full feature graphics drivers are kind of like this too. You need to see which upstream has the driver and which distro flows that. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/144ccb6d-91bb-446a-bc74-853ddd5020cc%40googlegroups.com . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/CAKdd5H8o2aLUS%2BH47KU%3Ds9L_peXAKRt27h%2BY7uv3LzAorWsnyA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
