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Re: amd64 sarge installation cds with 2.6.12



Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu> writes:

F> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>
>>> Hmm, that's a pretty good question.  I guess another good question is:
>>> Do you _need_ udev at all?
>>
>> If you want to use gnome-volume-manager, yes!
>
> How about just for normal, default, basic use of the system?
>
> All I know about udev is that it manages device nodes, but does it do so 
> by default in the 2.6 Debian stock kernels, or do you need to enable it?

The main difference of udev is that it run on userlevel and uses the
kernel as base for it. Yes, it's enabled on default kernel config.

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