FYI, for full hardware support in an Ubuntu install one should add both main
and restricted.
CK
On 12/28/06, Unit3 <unit3@demoni.ca> wrote:
>
> Kurtis Peterson wrote:
> > This was posed to me by a friend and I decided to ask the group. Can
> > one take a Debian install, change the sources.list to add the main
> > ubuntu repositories and install ubuntu-desktop?
> Yes. However, you'll likely want to do an "apt-get dist-upgrade" first,
> as Ubuntu will likely want to replace all the packages on the system
> with its packages. However, this does work, or at least it did with
> Debian/testing when Ubuntu/breezy was current. ;)
>
> Graeme
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