[Debian-eeepc-devel] Request for advice for system for Eee PC 701

[Paul Menzel]

Am Dienstag, den 01.12.2009, 16:29 +0100 schrieb Frédéric Boiteux:
> Le Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:40:36 -0400,
> Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> a écrit :
> 
> > If the owner is reasonably proficient at maintaining a Debian system,
> > or if you are, and are providing support, then my preference would be
> > to have you running Squeeze so that you can help test it and improve
> > it before it is released.  Also, I would rather steer you towards free
> > software than non-free.
> 
>   I'm on the same line about free software, but my friend, a Linux (and
> Debian) user since some years, don't have a so far skills  to maintain
> or repair her system. I'll try to test it as much as I can when I'll do
> the install, and then follow this list about news she would be aware of.

I would also recommend to use testing/Squeeze or unstable/Sid. The
chances that testing breaks something are pretty small. So if it works
when you set it up it should not break so badly afterward doing

	sudo aptitude update && `sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

every once in a while, that she is not able to repair it.

KMS, Grub2, Ext4 and for example an up to date LXDE are pretty strong
reasons to go for testing/Squeeze.

Do not forget about Boot Booster [1] and maybe a self-compiled Linux
kernel to speed up boot time. But most of this is mentioned in the
Debian Wiki I guess.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Boot#BootBooster
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