On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:00:18PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu> writes: > > scripsit Bijan Soleymani: > > > > I was under the impression that Knoppix, as ia32-only, was just in a > > different category than Debian, with (including stuff under development) > > four kernels and thirteen architectures. I don't think anyone objects > > to having spiffy hardware autodetection, it's just that making it work > > for Debian is a bit different from making it work for Knoppix. > <SNIP> > ... Having autodetection on ia32 doesn't hurt sparc users (it > doesn't help them either, but that's not a problem). I think you're preaching to the choir on this issue. Unless I'm mistaken, the new "debian-installer" that will ship with Sarge _has_ a fair degree of hardware autodetection. Of course, this doesn't change the fact that Knoppix serves a completely different niche than Debian and it wouldn't make a lot of sense to strive to make Debian just like Knoppix. Knoppix made some sacrifices to achieve a no-questions-asked, straight-outta-the-box desktop system, and it's great for that purpose. Debian's priorities are not the same and there's no reason they should be. Cheers! -- -------------------------------<<ScruLoose>>------------------------------- He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - J.R.R. Tolkien --------------------------<<Please do not CC me>>--------------------------
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