Re: A suggestion

[Mike Bird <mgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu April 3 2008 14:38:14 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On 2008-04-03, Mike Bird <mgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Stable is a poor solution for desktops because it doesn't support
> > recent hardware.  For a long time now we've had to run Testing
> > mixed with the Unstable versions of xserver-xorg.*, nvidia.*, and
> > linux-image.* in order to support recent video and audio chips.
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf will solve that soon.

Now that linux-image 2.6.24 has migrated from sid to lenny and will
be included in EtchAndAHalf that helps a lot.  There's also a need
for sid's xserver-xorg.* 7.3 which has not yet made it to lenny,
and IIRC also the nvidia.* from sid.

--Mike Bird


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