<quote who="Jason Rennie">
> 1. What is the hardware support like in it, and is it possible to get the
> 2.6 series kernel installed ? I ask principally because the AGP driver I
> need is only available in the 2.6 kernel AFAIK.
2.6 by default (and we only support a 2.4 kernel for specific server
requirements). The hardware support and detection is really good.
> 2. What is it like for recompiling kernels for specific drivers ? I have a
> similar problem to the above with a DVB card that has working drivers, but
> the drivers are a kernel patch at the moment.
You should be able to install the kernel headers package and go.
> 3. Does it have nice easy support for setting up things like NFS and Samba ?
Not for serving, yet.
> 4. Do you have to fight with the system to install hand rolled software
> and the like ? It seems like you might based on the demo Jeff gave, but
> maybe not.
Two answers: a) you should never have to hand roll stuff (this is Debian),
and b) use GNU stow if you ever have to do it (makes life easier on any
system).
- Jeff
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