Re: "Fastest Linux of the world", hardware detection, X11 config
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:19:54AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:17:37PM -0400, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > 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.
The point is that having multiple ways of doing things for those that
want the other ways is OK so long as the installer picks a default to
put on people's systems.
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