Now that I dumped Debian Lenny from this laptop, Ubuntu has got to go, too

“But on my main machine, a 2002-era Gateway Solo 1450 laptop,
there’s been trouble in GNU/Linux paradise.

“After fighting with Debian Lenny for months over the Gateway’s
screen-refresh problems (which basically render much of that screen
unreadable after a half-hour or so of use), I finally decided that
I couldn’t stick with the Testing branch of my favorite Linux
distro on its road to becoming Stable. While many other problems
cropped up and were mowed down either by me or the Debian Project
itself, this last issue just wouldn’t go away. And since I see not
even one other person with this same problem, I fear the issue will
never be resolved. I don’t even know which package to file a bug
against.”

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