I was happy to see that the kernel for this one is up to 2.6.8..., whereas the Debian stable install is only at 2.2 (or 2.4 if you choose the 24bf). The problem with Debian's 24bf is that it doesn't support my NIC, which uses the e1000 driver. So I installed Debian's 2.2 kernel, and later tried to update the kernel to one designed for Celeron/PIII processors. After that, my NIC wouldn't work. Ubuntu's hardware detection identified my NIC right away, and automatically installed the e1000 driver for me; with Debian's install, I had to install the e1000 driver as a "foreign module" from a floppy.
As part of its "base package," Ubuntu installed things like dvd+rw and cd+rw, but all I have is a simple 16X CDROM device; but Synaptic it was a simple matter to remove those. I was also able to add a Debian mirror to my sources.list, and now the machine is happily installing some extra packages that Ubuntu didn't offer, including dhid. |
