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Re: Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad

From Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad
Date 2016-03-13 16:20 +0100
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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:02:54 +1100 Andrew McGlashan
<andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:

> Just reporting that I have a couple of older machines that both work
> well with Tails 1.8.2 -- an old Thinkpad that used to run XP and an
> old Macbook Pro 4,1 (early 2008).
> 
> Both machines fail on Tails 2.x -- the Thinkpad gets further than the
> Macbook Pro.  2.x is based on Jessie.

This is indeed strange, considering the fact that Jessie works fine on
both of these models. Are there any suspect Tails-specific
functionalities which may be the cause?

When you say "fail", what do you mean? Do they both refuse to boot?
Blank screen? Stuck on login? What?

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Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-13 03:10 +0100
  Re: Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-03-13 16:20 +0100
    Re: Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-03-14 18:20 +0100

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