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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Posted Jun 3, 2008 19:01 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Current default kernel in Lenny (which is Testing, ratherthan Unstable) is 2.6.24-1 .

As you mentioned the "aging stable", any news about EtchAndAHalf? I'm already using its
packages on some systems that had problems with Etch's kernel.


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Posted Jun 3, 2008 22:55 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I run Lenny on my Eee and it mostly works, including power management. The trouble here is with selection of packages, which is quite tricky. I'm not sure tasksel is really efficient at selecting all packages for optimum power management. Our editor's expert hand here might be very helpful.

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