Unity-2D/Ubuntu Classic (was: Unity: Nothing can go wrong!)

[David Gerard]

On 17 April 2011 20:31, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sadly, I am not yet Man Enough for Debian.


Debian's not that scary and stuff does actually work ;-) I use distros
and DEs because I *could* build an operating system from toothpicks,
string and a copy of gcc. But I don't want to have to. Ubuntu has
filled the gap spectacularly for many years


> I have Crunchbang on it now. 9.04 is Ubuntu-based and works, with a
> small amount of tweaking. But 10 is Debian 6. In the new Debian, all
> the proprietary drivers are gone, so my Ethernet card doesn't work,
> nor my wifi card, nor my USB wifi dongle, nor my spare Ethernet card.
> So even if I install it, I won't have any Internet access at all, so I
> won't be able to install any new drivers. I've not even tried 'cos I
> don't know where to begin finding the missing stuff.


If this netbook didn't use proprietary wifi, I'd have Debian unstable
on it already.


- d.