Re: "Fastest Linux of the world", hardware detection, X11 config
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:17:37PM -0400, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > Debian won't have decent support for adapting to the user's hardware
> > until we see a more collaborative spirit in the Project...and at present
> > things seem to be tending in rather the other direction, at least on
> > this list.
>
> What do you mean "at present"? Independent packaging has always been the
> way things have been.
I mean that the present trend seems to be heading even further away
from cooperation, at least in my view.
> So you can have 50 different ways to do the same detection. The installer
> can make the right choice for which util is the best suited to the 95% of
> the user configs out there, and make things as simple as possible, while
> still allowing for custom install images for the other 5% to be made
> easily.
It's not just the installer, although that would be a nice start; a
lot of other software would benefit from more hardware awareness. It
certainly doesn't hurt to have 50 ways to detect hardware, but at the
moment that'll get you your kernel modules loaded and not much else
AFAICS.
Daniel
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