Laptop Recommendations?

[Rick Moen]

begin E Frank Ball quotation:
 
> If you are going to the trouble of doing a fresh install I'd spring for
> some newer install CDs.  Storm declared bankruptcy and will likely die
> off, so you won't be able to upgrade it.

That is (1) a non-sequitur, and (2) demonstrably untrue.

He needs only to revise his /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the
following:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free

Then, he will be able to bring all installed packages up to the current
revisions of the Debian-stable track (as of any given date) by just typing

   apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

The Storm Technologies-originated enhancements such as Storm Package
Manager (or whatever it's called) should remain present and usable,
since Stormix has been highly compatible with Debian proper.

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