Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? [LWN.net]

Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2003 17:04 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640)
In reply to: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? by rfunk
Parent article: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Try to get 3d hardware acceleration out of a Radeon 8500 on Debian stable. The card is
on the market for years now. I know someone who tried it very hard and went as far as
manually compiling XFree86 4.3 and in the end switched to SuSE to make it work, out of
the box without any configuration effort at all. That is what I meant and it's not just video
cards. Another big issue is that to be able to anything serious with hardware at all you
have to replace the default 2.2 kernel with a 2.4 one. This is something no other
distribution requires it's users do to.

Again, no offense. Debian has strong points, but these are critical issues Debian needs
to solve.

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Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2003 20:04 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

I'm using a separate repository to get XFree86 4.3. There are several independent Debian repositories on http://apt-get.org/

Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Posted Nov 7, 2003 15:34 UTC (Fri) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

Debian stable is not meant for the desktop. It's for servers.
you want latest packages, use other backported sources or use testing/unstable.

I run unstable on my desktops/laptops. No problem.