Tag Archives: support

Got spoiled by Linux driver support

Posted by Herman on 18 April, 2007 0 comments

Last week I got a bit annoyed that dapper was missing some new drivers, this week I realised its not as bad as it could have been. We got another HP DL145G3 and we decided to try out some alternative operating systems. We tried OpenBSD, no luck, we tried Nexenta alpha6 (OpenSolaris), no luck. Both [...]

Will there be a new update to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (with a new kernel)?

Posted by Herman on 1 April, 2007 10 comments

We use Ubuntu 6.06 LTS/Dapper on practically all the servers we setup and maintain, however in the last months we experienced that more and more new hardware isn’t supported. The latest example is a missing driver for a hardware timer clock thingy on the HP DL145G3 (check peter’s blog for more info), which is required [...]