personally, i'd try debian first and if your new machine has built in wireless, use ndiswrapper. the wiki has very good documentation and i've set up several people's machines (all dells except mine) with this.

best, p

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [PD] Linux - which distribution to use? From: "David Powers" cyborgk@gmail.com Date: Thu, April 19, 2007 10:43 am To: pd-list@iem.at

Question: I'm considering a dual boot because my old laptop with Debian died, and I got a new one, currently with XP (running blackbox for windows though, thanks Frank!). However, one thing I recall is that on my old laptop, the system was freezing until the kernel was patched. Having to patch the kernel before anything works. I also could never get that computer on the internet through USB wireless (it had no built in wireless card), and these days I pretty much depend on some sort of wireless connection to get on the internet, I'm mostly working away from home. I found that Debian was impossible to use without an internet connection, and it was quite a catch22 trying to fix anything, when I couldn't search for info and apt-get things to try to solve the problem. So, what I'm saying is, I WANT to intall Debian, but I'm very afraid to do so and have the same kind of probems. My newer computer (used one year) though, is a Dell Inspiron 630m, which my old employer let me keep when I left, while the old one was some PIII Toshiba. Can I expect an easier time with the install of Debian on a newer laptop? My friend led me to believe the problems were related to having an older laptop. Or should I try Ubuntu first if I'm doing it myself, and wait for 6 months for the Debian until I'm more comfortable with it all? I guess it's the hardware/wireless config + kernel recompiling that I'm worried about. ~David On 4/18/07, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:01 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > Me, too. Debian rules. Other than that pure:dyne rules as well. > > > > i agree, though ubuntu is also a debian derivative, but sometimes much > > easier to use than debian and from my experience comes with better > > maintained repos. as a beginner, i'd still vote for ubuntu. > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list