For a long long time, I wanted to clean up my laptop of all the junk that had accumulated over the last three years. I had started off on Ubuntu Hoary, converted it to Kubuntu, upgraded to Dapper, then to Edgy and basically played around with it so much that it had become a big mess.
So I decided to get back to that tried and tested distribution which I had abandoned on the laptop - Debian. And I was very pleasantly surprised. The Linux kernel has come a long way I guess.
About say 4 years ago, when I installed my first Debian system, I fought for days to get it to work. When I got my laptop about 2 and a half years ago, I couldn't get a lot of things to work. This time though, I didn't have to do anything.
1. Wireless worked out of the box (upto now I had been struggling with ndiswrapper on all the distributions I had tried out).
2. Hibernate and resume worked (my hardware was notorious for causing either one of the two to fail)
3. The touchpad worked flawlessly.
4. I didn't have to configure X. Even on Ubuntu I have had to configure xserver-xorg. On Debian, it all just worked.
5. New packages - debian is notorious for having very old versions of packages. This release has almost everything I want (except for ion, which is stuck at version 2 :( )
In almost no time, I had a neatly installed debian system all ready to ready. Sometimes, its nice to start afresh :)
So I decided to get back to that tried and tested distribution which I had abandoned on the laptop - Debian. And I was very pleasantly surprised. The Linux kernel has come a long way I guess.
About say 4 years ago, when I installed my first Debian system, I fought for days to get it to work. When I got my laptop about 2 and a half years ago, I couldn't get a lot of things to work. This time though, I didn't have to do anything.
1. Wireless worked out of the box (upto now I had been struggling with ndiswrapper on all the distributions I had tried out).
2. Hibernate and resume worked (my hardware was notorious for causing either one of the two to fail)
3. The touchpad worked flawlessly.
4. I didn't have to configure X. Even on Ubuntu I have had to configure xserver-xorg. On Debian, it all just worked.
5. New packages - debian is notorious for having very old versions of packages. This release has almost everything I want (except for ion, which is stuck at version 2 :( )
In almost no time, I had a neatly installed debian system all ready to ready. Sometimes, its nice to start afresh :)
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