Re: Good Debian-based distro

[tallison@tacocat.net]

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > You may want to have a look at knoppix, they have a live CD so that
>> folks
>> > can experiment with it.  It can then bee installed to HD if folks wish
>> to
>> > do so.  Best of all it's Debian based...  I have had a look at it and
>> was
>> > impressed by it.
>> >
>> > cheers
>> >
>>
>> I found the hardware detection excellent!
>>
>> IMHO this is one area that Debian needs some work.
>
> Search the archives and find out _why_ Knoppix has better hardware
> detection. This has been a large thread a few months ago.
>
> David
>

A quickie search shows that Knoppix uses Kudzu which is originally
supplied by RedHat and is now available as a Debian package.

So...

If Knoppix has better hardware detection than base Debian
And Knoppix uses Kudzu
And Kudzu is available as a Debian package

Then why don't we (Debian) use Kudzu as an installation tool?