Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu
Hello
Joerg Rossdeutscher (<ratti@gesindel.de>) wrote:
> I tried it, since I have an AMD64 and I am not happy with
> Debian-pure64.
>
> Ubuntu was not bad, but I do not like it's "I-decide-for-you"-style,
> i.e. it asks not enough questions during installation, has no
> "modconf" (doesn't compile for them), and when I googled how to get
> modconf I found an answer from a developer "You should normally not
> need modconf, since Ubuntu should discover all modules automatically.
> Which hardware is not running?". Well, I dropped Suse (and Windows
> previously) since *I* want to "detect" and "manage" my stuff, not a
> automatically-something-tool. And at the end of installation I found
> myself with postfix instead of exim.
What exactly does modconf do other than load a module and save it's name
to /etc/modules? If you want to manage modules on your own, add their
lines to /etc/modules. By the way, Debian Sarge also installs discover1
and hotplug by default, which will detect your hardware, and there is
no modconf in the new installer.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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