[conspire] test drive of new laptop

[Tony Godshall]

Ubuntu includes non-free firmware.

If you want to see if it's friendly to real FLOSS drivers, use Debian live.

I'd take both Debian and Ubuntu, one to see how floss-friendly it is and
one to see if it can be made to work.  Just dd  the hybrid iso file to a
USB stick (the whole stick, /dev/sdx, not a partition (/dev/sdx1).
On May 2, 2015 11:01 PM, "Paul Zander" <pazander at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Thanks for suggestion of USB.  Having looked up the process, it should be
> easier to copy to the ISO to USB than to make sure I get the right settings
> on the CD burn procedure.  I've wasted more then one disk by burning the
> .ISO as a file.
>
> I'm thinking I would start by making a Ubuntu Live USB and then use it to
> play some assortment of online videos.  This should (hopefully) verify some
> degree functionality of the graphics drivers.  Anything else I should test
> while I can still have time to return the machine?
>
> Later when I actually install Debian, I can focus on getting the correct
> packages (possibly non-free, etc.) with minimal risk caused by
> non-compatible hardware for which no driver exists.
>
> Paul
>
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>  *From:* Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com>
> *To:* Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org>; Conspire List <conspire at linuxmafia.com>
>
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 2, 2015 9:12 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [conspire] test drive of new laptop
>
> i would recommend running of USB, if that's an option. on top of not using
> a media (eco) you can (at least with Ubuntu) have persistence, so if you
> reboot it will not be reset to begin mode. all distros probably have tools
> (or tutorials) on doing that. and on that - MultiSystem is a nice utility
> to create multi-boot USBs, where you can choose at boot time what to use.
> it also supports Windows, if that a need.
>
>
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:26 PM Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> I just bought a new laptop. I want to install Debian. Knowing that laptops
> can have components that are not compatible with Linux I thought it would
> be a good idea to first run from a live CD and put the graphics, etc
> through "test drive".
>
> What would be a good candidate for the live CD?  Ubuntu, Jessie?
>
> What particular things should I try?
>
> Paul
>
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