[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[hermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2011, 22:45 -1000 schrieb david:
> Simon Wise wrote:
> > On 04/08/11 11:40, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > 
> >> [My current modus operandi is to use ubuntu live to partition, grub and
> >> generally check out a new system. Then install debian.  Any better
> >> suggestions are welcome :-) ]
> > 
> > Another debian live cd that has proved very good at dealing with new 
> > hardware etc, and has a very long track record, is aptosid. This team 
> > made sidux, and before that kanotix. Almost pure debian sid, with a 
> > small repo of bug fixes and configuration files, and a nice manual.
> > 
> > http://aptosid.com/
> 
> I run that on my desktop/server box and I'm planning to put it on my 
> laptop. They do a great job of smoothing some of the rough edges of Sid. 
> Just note that Sid no longer includes the NV (open source NVidia) 
> driver. It includes the newer Nouveau (open source NVidia) driver. 
> Unfortunately, Nouveau doesn't support the older NVidia hardware ...
> 
> Their newest update now includes an RT kernel 3.0 as an option.
> 
As far I know there isn't a aptosid rt kernel, but in debian/sid there
is a 3.0-rt amd64 kernel now.

greats
hermann