[LUGSB] ICON Events

[Vinay Pai]

> 1. Even the unstable branch is not new enough.  This matters to me
> because Linux support for my laptop is still pretty flaky

Debian Unstable has Linux 2.6.4 and 2.4.25, so regardless of which flavor
you prefer, you have the latest and greatest kernel.  The debian packages
were in the repository days after the respective kernels were released.

It also has XFree86 4.3.0.  Even while it wasn't in unstable you could
easily install it from the X Maintainer's repository by adding a single
line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

AFAIK, no other packages really have an impact on support for your laptop.

Yes, they haven't always had the latest KDE or GNOME releases, but like
XFree86 you could probably install the maintainers version if you wanted.


> 2. Sometimes it is simply much quicker and easier to just use
> configuration frontends instead of reading man pages and messing with a
> dozen configuration files.  Commercial distros are pretty good with
> their configuration tools.

As Sean pointed out, Debian has an exellent configuration tool.