Quoting nils (nils at eircom.net):
> I dont mean to break up the fight.
*shudder* One sincerely hopes not.
> I have redhat installed on laptop, need games,redhat f#$k-up with XF86
> and DRI etc so i have being told,I have alway had problems upgrading
> XF86(many an install wasted on this area) to the latest version so i
> decided to leave well enough alone. SO... I have heard that debian is
> easy to upgrade (apt bullshit i think). Would this be a better distro
> for a laptop.
No distribution is particularly good for a laptop. Laptops do evil
things.
> redhat 7.2 comes with XFree86 4.1.0, what the verdict doctor?
If you're asking about Debian woody/3.0/testing, 4.1.0 is standard:
http://people.debian.org/~branden/
Untested, quick-and-dirty 4.2.0 .debs for i386 (Shaya Potter's) are
available here: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/x/
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