Re: the laptop proposal -- ideas, thoughts, and criticisms

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>]

On 14-Sep-99 NatePuri wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:02:52AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> I am packaging divine, should appear in the next week - I have to get libnet
>> happy and packaged first.
> 
> What is divine?
> 

http://www.fefe.de/divine/

>> the hardware detection is much larger than laptops and is being looked into
>> slowly
> 
> I'm very interested in hardware detection.  Can you tell me more?  Thanks.
> 

Several groups are working on a generic hardware detection interface -- once
finished any linux can use these to detect hardware.

Look in the proposal, Werner has data on both of these.

Also, see mandrake linux's web page for info.