[NCLUG] Hello All.

[Brian Stanback]

I am sure everyone would be welcome to have you at the hacking society
meetings, I am pretty lazy so I don't attend social functions that much.

I have been using Debian for awhile and it works good for me. As
far as Debian being up-to-date: I find that the "testing" release aka Woody
has a pretty current APT list. It is running the 2.4 Kernel so it
should support most/all of your hardware; you can always grab the
latest kernel and recompile it to meet your hardware needs.

Debian's stable release goes through quite a bit of testing before
it is released and that results in one of the most stable and secure distros out there.

Some of the Tummy guys will probably sell you on KRUD though :)

--
Brian

On Fri, 17 May 2002, siegel wrote:

> >
> >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
>
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