Re: Good Debian-based distro
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:00:46PM -0400, tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
[You seem to be breaking attributions - who said this?]
> > 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.
It would clearly work; there's a separate installer build for every
architecture!
> But it blows off the ideology of consistency.
I disagree; I think it's fine for the i386 installer to behave a little
differently, particularly in inherently architecture-specific things
like hardware detection. I think the debian-installer people think so
too and will be using discover for automatic hardware detection at least
on i386.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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