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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Posted Jun 5, 2008 12:33 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops by frankie
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Xrandr 1.2 hasn't propagated to testing yet.

Debian/testing never was a good choice for laptops. I have been running Debian/unstable since my first laptop (some time around 2002), and even though I usually upgrade it daily I had only one case of major breakage.

In this specific case of a ThinkPad laptop, thinkwiki.org is the site to refer to, preferrably before you buy a laptop, so that you can be sure that all your bells and whistles will work with free drivers.


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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Posted Jun 5, 2008 21:01 UTC (Thu) by jcristau (subscriber, #41237) [Link]

> Xrandr 1.2 hasn't propagated to testing yet.

It's been in testing since a year (but only for intel hardware until last month).

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