[clue-tech] Declining Linux support.

[Nate Duehr]

David L. Anselmi wrote:

> But I thought that perhaps Ubuntu knows a good way to do this and would 
> describe their process.  All the Ubuntu answers seem to be along the 
> lines of "it works for me" or "tweak this file here" (where the file is 
> an Ubuntu config file.

Sadly, when I've found the Debian documentation or knowledge level of 
those on the Debian lists lacking, the Gentoo forums usually have the 
information I'm looking for.

> So it occurs to me that the better distros get at supporting things out 
> of the box, the fewer people figure it out for themselves, and the 
> harder it is to find out how things work under the covers (without 
> having to disassemble them).

Definitely.

> I've been keeping notes on things I have to figure out or hand configure 
> (cause I hate having to figure them out again).  Maybe I need a blog to 
> put that stuff on.

Very helpful, and if the blog's public you might find others interested 
in your particular plight that have the same hardware.  I met a few 
people from my pitifully bad posting about how I set things up on the 
eMachine on my website, a couple of years ago.

Nate