Re: Good Debian-based distro
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >>
> >> 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?
Do we still really need kudzu still now that linux has hotpluging
support for usb, pci and firewire? Maybe for supporting old isa
hw. Even though it's called hotplug, it should be able to also
detect hardware on the initial boot as well, it does for usb by
calling usb.rc, why can't there be a pci.rc that does the same
thing and at least parially remove the need for kudzu and
Xconfigurator. Maybe I'll have to look into writing that...
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