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Subject: RE: Which Linux is best on lab top
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Date: 2007-04-25T19:55:12+02:00

Thank you all for your great advice.

My implied and top requirements are good Ada support. Debian is clearly
better than Ubuntu in this area. Therefore, combined with your comments,
I have decided to go with Debian. By the way, my labtop is a Toshiba
A135-S4487. I hope Debian has no problem to support this hardware.

AV

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Subject: Re: Which Linux is best on lab top

Pascal Obry writes:
> Ludovic,
>
>> Neither Debian nor Ubuntu have auto-upgrade, because Debian doesn't
do
>
> Yes and no. GNOME provides an updater applet which can be configured :
>
> 1. to download and install softwares automatically
> 2. download but ask before installing
> 3. notify when new software versions are available to download
>
> I'm using option 3 on the testing branch. Stable enough (read no
problem
> since 3 years) for what I'm doing.

Thanks.  I wouldn't know, since I use neither GNOME nor KDE :) I
usually only have emacs and galeon full-screen on IceWM.