Hi,
I'm an unhappy owner of Dell 1720. There's a lot of things that suck about this laptop, but the main one is ipw3459 wireless driver - my Ubuntu 7.10 crashes randomly something like once or twice a day (sometimes I'm able to reboot, sometimes just gotta pull the plug, cause even Raising Skinny Elephants doesn't help).
Anyways, I'm looking for some other distro, preferably a descendant of Debian. Two questions:
* what's the chance that mint will have different drivers (that don't crash)?
* is it possible to dist-upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10?
Ubuntu -> Mint
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muszek
Ubuntu -> Mint
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Re: Ubuntu -> Mint
1. Zero to none. However, the ipw3459 should be pretty stable, it might be something else that makes Ubuntu crash.muszek wrote: * what's the chance that mint will have different drivers (that don't crash)?
* is it possible to dist-upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10?
2. Nope. Mint forked from Edge (?), and since that have been an independent distro. Only way to switch is a clean install!
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
--Dean Martin
Re: Ubuntu -> Mint
A clean install might be a good thing anyway, with all the plug pulling you been doing. Someone around here posted some good (safer) alternatives to plug pulling.