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Re: Periodic distro question



> ALSA, or any realiable sound support is probably the one thing that
> has never worked on this IBM A21m.

If alsa does not work probably the problem is with alsa and not with debian
dont you think ? (Just asking i have no idea of what sound card you have).

> possibly looking into RedHat because of the extensive bloat that
> Debian has shown and the latency of the distributions.

What do you mean by bloat? I am using woody, in woody packages are not so
lagged behind. I used Eduard Bloch's woody net install disks
http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ and they worked preatty much
ok. (They will default to a XFS partition attention with that)

> But migration to Testing has resulted in a cascade of updated
> packages, many of whom overwrite my existing configurations.  This

When upgradding packges you have always the option of using the new
configuration files or tomaintain the ones on your harddrive.

> really pisses me off to no end.  Combine this with the continued
> abstraction levels of Debian and it is now getting harder to use
> Debian and understand other distributions as well.  This niche


what abstraction layer? I use debian 70% of the time, the other 30% i use
red hat, digital unix (now compaq true64), mandrake and i have no problem.

Gustavo



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