Re: Good Debian-based distro
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:09:45 +0100
> Peter Whysall <peter@guildenstern.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
>> on Mon, Aug 11, 2003, tallison@tacocat.net (tallison@tacocat.net) wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there a buzzword to reference?
>>
>> Yes. Portability.
>>
>> The same Debian Installer runs on 11 different architectures. Knoppix
>> doesn't.
>>
>> If a decision was made to break the installer on platforms such as hppa
>> and sparc in favour of superduper hardware detection on x86, I for one
>> would be breaking out the torches and pitchforks.
>
> Why can't the installer ask what the CPU is and if it's an x86 then use
> kudzu and if it isn't don't? Wouldn't that work on all platforms? Or
> can't an x86 CPU be reliably detected?
>
It might work.
But it blows off the ideology of consistency.
The best you (should) strive for is a manual intervention to use kudzu in
lieu of the other available tools.
Kind of like using bastille for security.
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