[kwlug-disc] How to choose a new motherboard

[Paul Gallaway]

And to finish the sentence in my last email which I sent prematurely...

"Newer kernels are available in stable from official backport channels
(wheezy-backports), if you can get that far, will improve stability
and battery performance on newer hardware"
~pAul.

all good things, all in good time...


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Paul Gallaway <paul at gallaway.ca> wrote:
> My experience with Debian on a laptop is just do the install while
> plugged into a network cable and the install the appropriate firmware
> bits from non-free post install. I pretty much only ever do a minimal
> install and then select the desktop package I want later (currently
> using KDE). For newer chipsets (<6 months, up to 12 months) you may
> need to install testing or Sid if the default install kernel (e.g. the
> relatively ancient 3.2 on Wheezy) won't detect enough of your hardware
> to do an install. Newer kernels are available in stable from official
> backport channels (wheezy-backports) if y
> ~pAul.
>
> all good things, all in good time...