<p dir="ltr">Ubuntu includes non-free firmware.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you want to see if it's friendly to real FLOSS drivers, use Debian live.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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).</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 2, 2015 11:01 PM, "Paul Zander" <<a href="mailto:pazander@pacbell.net">pazander@pacbell.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr"><span>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.<br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>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?<br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>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.<br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Paul</span></div><br> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Ehud Kaldor <<a href="mailto:ehud.kaldor@gmail.com" target="_blank">ehud.kaldor@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Paul Zander <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>>; Conspire List <<a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, May 2, 2015 9:12 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] test drive of new laptop<br> </font> </div> <div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr">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.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div>On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:26 PM Paul Zander <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br><br></div><div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr">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".</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">What would be a good candidate for the live CD? Ubuntu, Jessie?</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">What particular things should I try?</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Paul<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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