[ltp] What to take care of when buying a Lenovo?

[Hamish]

On Sunday 09 March 2008 01:44:20 Michael B Allen wrote:
> On 3/8/08, Petr Praus <p.praus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's probably your main issue, 2.6.18 is really, REALLY old - more
> >  than year and half which in case of notebook hardware means a lot.
> >  Intel 4965AGN didn't even exist on the market back in September 2006
> >  when 2.6.18 was first released.
> >  Maybe it's time to go for some bleeding edge ;)
>
> Yeah but I like the fact that RH doesn't change stuff all the time.

Cough... That's my biggest issue with RH... That stability is only stable so 
long as you want to do what everyone else has been doing for several years 
now...

> With other distros you have to reinstall every year or so or you're
> left in the dust. That would drive me nuts. I was running RH 7.3 for

No... You don't have to re-install. Upgrade maybe. But on most modern distros' 
that as simple as a single command followed by a reboot... But then I don't 
like rpm's either (Too many issues in the past with rpm hell for me to ever 
want to go back to an RPM based system I'm afraid).

Best distribution I'd recommend to anyone I think is Debian. Best if you like 
to customise things is Gentoo. Debian wins on stability & ease of use. Gentoo 
on customisation at the expense of a bit of thinking & re-compiling if you 
left a feature out.


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