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The your method comment was to simplify comparison, not to offend in any way. I understand the compression thing but what I found interesting was that seems as if writing is faster than reading. hdparm gives same read speed.

It's wise to compile some parts however as modules, the info blurps even suggest that so they can be unloaded, e.g. at hibernate.

I guess the rule of thumb is to compile in stuff you gonna use all the time (i.e. your root filesystem) and leave as modules something only used seldomly (say usb stuff).

Been here?

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne#Touchpad

I get Write 38 MB/s, Read 49 MB/s with http://tuxonice.net/ on 2.6.35 and EXT4 using LZO compression FWIW.

Edit: Your method of testing disk speeds gives me the interesting result of write 27,5 MB/s and read 27 MB/s.

Thanks, I've seen that study but can't find such a conclusion there.

1. That gnome-desktop-environment is a metapackage, which contains no code but depends on many other actual packages that do. If you remove one (or more) of those packages, also the metapackage will go.

2. That's right.

Web Upd8 wrote:I'm not sure how legal this is, but it's an amazing feature!

Sounds like a quality news outlet... I guess everybody knows exactly how legal it is.

Miguel Perez wrote:Temperature may be a factor in making the drive fail earlier. As Google found out in a statistical study[citation required], hard disks actually run better when hot (think 40º) than cold.

Got the link somewhere? And if it's a 400 page document, a page number would also help.

If you could disable the hardware functionality you could then manually bind the keys in GNOME keyboard shortcuts (or if that doesn't work as sometimes happens, in gconf-editor /apps/metacity/ using xev to find out keycodes). Perhaps such a switch could be in the BIOS or perhaps you need some wonder...

See http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration

Unless you have a really bad connection I would suggest using the netinstall next time. That way you get what you want and nothing else.

Well, can you use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to VT1?

I was actually thinking about that too, but most of the replies and discussion here are about Debian 5.0. You could just call it "Kernel compile and install on Debian Stable for newbies" And put in an comment in the tutorial about the first 5 pages of discussion being about Lenny. The dee...

@Rolling Stone Will there be a "Kernel compile and install on Debian 6.0 for newbies"? I've used this tutorial/howto on Lenny and always liked it. And yes, the difference for compiling on 6.0 is obviously minimal, but it could be good to start on fresh, perhaps, and perfect what is writte...

The FreedomBox Foundation is seeking pledges. I found the linked Eben Moglen's speeches interesting.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721 ... o-60-in-30

And here's the Debian angle of all this http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox

Spartan0311MP wrote:I do see the boot info, what do you want me to post? All of it?

Perhaps like the 5 last items that you see.

What's the history of the lappy, have you used it previously successfully?

Do you see the grub menu at boot?

2.6.32......
2.6.32...... (recovery)

If you do, click e to edit and remove the quiet parameter to get more info. If not, what exactly do you see?

I don't think so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System.map

Do you have the new machine there? If so, just try it.

I stand corrected.

Must have been drunk when making that assessment. I apologize.

The contrib issue still stands.

Neither suspend nor hibernate worked. Then I added the nomodeset kernel parameter, now both work.

I've had this experience on both nvidia and ati cards.