[TriLUG] Installfest SW

[Ben Pitzer]

John,

Potato will do alright on older hardware, however I'm not sure how well
it will do on older /laptop/ hardware.  Debian has never really been an
extremely laptop-friendly distro.  There are plenty of people who have
gotten it to install and run beautifully on laptops, but that was
obviously not the first concern of the developers in writing the code. 
I'm a long time Debian user, and I've always felt that it was much more
geared towards being a server distro than a desktop or notebook distro. 
I think that others will agree.  Potato has somewhat older software on
it as well, so some of that may not be as laptop-friendly as you might
like, either.

In all, I'd say try it, but be prepared to run into some problems. 
Especially on a 386 laptop.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer


On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:11, john broome wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 15:32, M. Mueller wrote:
>  
> > Indicate interest below and I'll bring 'em.
> > 
> >         stable/       
> >         potato/       
> >         2.2r6             
> > i386      X              
> 
> I'd like to try potato on my i386 laptop.  I can wipe out RH to give it
> a shot.  How well does does debian handle older HW?  
> 
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