On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT) tallison@tacocat.net wrote: > 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? Because Debian is available for nearly ever hardware out there. http://www.debian.org/ports Redhat supports significantly less platforms. http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/platform/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/9/en/os/ shows only i386. They can afford to tailor their installer for just that one architecture. That is a summary of the thread about why Knoppix has better detection. They also focus on i386. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Rancid - 1998 : Punk-O-Rama (Vol. 4) Today is Pungenday, the 4th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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