[NCLUG] Hello All.

[siegel]

>
>Ha! as if we take vacations!
>
>Hacking society, every Tuesday except NCLUG night.
>  http://www.hackingsociety.org/
>

Heh, I saw that page before I subscribed. Its not that I'm uninterested in 
attending, just that I don't know if my skills are "leet" enough to be 
attending hacker meetings. As I mentioned before, I'm still a linux newbie, 
and that kind of goes for coding too. If you guys (and gals) wouldn't mind 
someone looking over your shoulder for hours though, I would like to be there.

I just got a new computer about a week ago, and I'm going to burn some Debian 
CD's for it this afternoon probably. Perhaps you can help if anything goes 
terribly wrong. That is, of course, unless anyone has a different distro to 
tout. (here's your chance to convert a newbie.)

Actually, I have a question if anyone can help. This will be my first 
experience with Debian, and I often hear it railed on for being a bit "out of 
date". I assume this means in the packages, and not so much in terms of 
hardware support. I could care less about having the very latest package of 
everything, but I ask because this computer which I've recently acquired is 
full of very new (and fun and powerful) parts. But i'm not sure how well they 
are supported.

I guess the question is: Is Debian any less up to date with hardware ssupport 
than other distros? Hope thats not too general.


Thanks for the quick responses, and any help you might have. And nice to meet 
all of you!

-Rob