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[Sean Kellogg]

I guess I'm confused...  I thought debian was as easy as:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Did I miss something?  Wireless drivers tend not to be a matter of technical 
ease with Debian, but legal restrictions.  Debian remains one of the very few 
distributions unwilling to make compromises on free software.  Call it 
whatever you want, but I don't think complication is, err, apt :)

-Sean

On Saturday 17 February 2007 02:17:46 pm Alejandro Wainzinger wrote:
> The last time I dealt with debian, it was my friend who wanted it on
> his laptop before 2.6.17 which included bcm43xx drivers natively, so I
> had fun trying to make his wireless work.  Not a bad distro, just
> terribly confusing.  As compared to:
>
> emerge --sync, emerge -Davut world, etc-update, revdep-rebuild
>
> It's just so simple and straightforward, I'm too lazy to work with
> anything more complicated or less effective.
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