[Tfug] Recommendations for hassle free desktop wireless card

[Zack Breckenridge]

Yes I would say so. There is certainly a more permissible attitude toward
binary blobs in these popular/commercial distros. Unfortunately, due to
many vendors attitudes about releasing code for (or even just documentation
on) their hardware drivers and firmware, if you're looking for a "no
hassle" Linux desktop (and in my experience the two biggest impediments
have recently been display and wireless drivers), I'm not sure what choice
you really have?

Debian seems to be behind the Kernel curve by design, for reasons of
stability, etc. Speaking from recent experience, if you have to use Debian
on new hardware you will probably have to recompile your Kernel or at least
the drivers you need (if they are even available in 2.6!).
On Apr 10, 2013 12:21 AM, "John Gruenenfelder" <jetpackjohn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Zack Breckenridge <zbrdge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > In case by "hassle free" you mean just go to a local retail store, buy a
> wireless card and have it work, I just got a Netgear N150 USB card, and it
> works great with zero configuration. However, I'm running fedora 18, with a
> 3.8.x kernel.
>
>
> Zack,
>
> Maybe it is different now, but don't Fedora and Debian have different
> interpretations of what is "free" and therefore allowable on the
> installation media.  It is similar to (ever larger) differences
> between Debian and Ubuntu installers and what they include.
>
>
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