I'm curious about this thread. If Debian is simply desired (not an immovable project spec), why go to the trouble of figuring out the Dell hardware specs and whether those are supported under Debian? Why not just get the machines from Dell with Red Hat preloaded?
William On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Magnus Hedemark wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > Well, often Red Hat ships patched kernels. Also, there do exist binary > > drivers created specifically for certain Redhat versions (ugh). > > I think "patched" is an understatement. Lately it is more like "forked". > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
