[Leaplist] Is there any way to tell...

[Patrick]

ray wrote:
> Austin (Ozz) Denyer wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:26:32 -0500, Homer Whittaker
>> <whittake at sbaflorida.com> wrote:
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>>> How badly am I going to mess up my vmlinuz-2.6.15-e7-amd64-generic under
>>> UBuntu if I update to the latest ETCH version?
>>> Do not know if I truly want to do it but just curious.
>>>     
>>
>> It's not a good idea to mix Ubuntu and regular Debian unless you know
>> what you're doing and are confident you can undo any resulting mess.
>> There are some packages that will merge just fine, but others are
>> customized for Ubuntu and could cause issues.
>>
>> I've played with Kubuntu a little (I prefer it to Ubuntu as I hate
>> Gnome [no GUI wars please]) and the latest official Kubuntu is Edgy
>> Eft.  That is pretty close to Debian Etch, but from what I've heard,
>> it's not worth the upgrade from Dapper to Edgy unless you really need a
>> special feature.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ozz.
>>
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> just a little FYI, i pulled down the latest 5.1 knoppix the other day 
> to see if i could get it to boot with my hardware, the GUI failed, 
> sadly i did not take the time to write down the errors in xorg, just 
> that it gave sound, but was a complete black screen.  did not kick me 
> back to the CLI, just left it hanging in a black screen.
>
> i had to open an other termianl and rm /tmp/.Xsomethingoranother file 
> to try again with the same results.
>
> this does not bode well for getting linux up and running on my 
> computer... *frown*
>
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Had issues with about ten different distros that were on regular CDroms, 
on a VIA chip board, with a Soc A 1.3Ghz Athlon, until I tried  Knoppix 
Lite, and, DSL3.2 (both are on mini-CDs, as they are actually about 49Mb 
n size).  They booted!

The full sized CDroms would boot up to where the desktop gets loaded, 
and then drop me to a shell!

Then, I replaced the 32X Toshiba CDrom with a different brand unit, and 
all booted!  Now, installed, but, there are minor issues with USB, so 
perhaps, the USB was 'blown'? (used board, curbside donation!).   Also, 
having a bit of  a time trying to get connected via NIC, on my 
network... It gets assigned an IP address, then, won't talk!


You never know!  Just try different distros, and use different hardware, 
until it works!