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No Debian ?No Debian ?Posted Mar 14, 2007 18:50 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: No Debian ? by mdomsch Parent article: Dell: what sort of Linux systems would you like? I have a second-hand Dell Latitude running Debian like a charm; with its 128 MB of RAM even Ubuntu was out of bounds (iceWM rocks). But it took me a few days to configure the thing and recompile the kernel with APM support, since ACPI is not working properly. Fully-configured Debian would be a godsend, but just fully-working whatever-libre-distro would be great.
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No Debian ? Posted Mar 14, 2007 21:05 UTC (Wed) by pfavr (subscriber, #38205) [Link] I'm running Debian on all my systems.
I agree with the things said about open driver support being the most important.
Furthermore it would be nice if Dell provided a "recommended" kernel .config for each and every system.
Or just a way for us customers to share the working configs with each other (e.g. it took me some time initially to get XFree working with my 24" Dell TFT in 1920x1200).
Dell: please use and support the community, we already buy your systems and configure them anyway.
BTW: I have successfully remote updated (through Internet) the bios in >40 Dell systems all running Debian. Really nice that Dell has provided kernel support for doing this.
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