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[Peter Belew]

One of the goals of Ubuntu is to give the user a choice of commercial
software, and software that doesn't use the GNU license, as well
as pure Gnu/Linux software. One can select various repositories
according to 'purity'. So there is possibly better wireless support
than with 'pure' Debian.

Peter

On 2/17/07, Sean Kellogg <skellogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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