After the initial boot of my shiny new Dell 1505n laptop, I started poking at it. The primary reason I got the machine was to look for issues that Ubuntu's users will face with it, so we can develop fixes quickly. Since I'd ordered this within hours of De
this explains why you always need to build the latest kernel when you buy a new dell,
except if you do redhat or novell, and why sometimes the latest knoppix just works
when all the other distos fail you -- knoppix usually has the latest kernel