Re: How Linux becomes Windows
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:27:30PM +0100, Dirk wrote:
> I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar bullshit.
>
> But this error message when I used modconf: "update-modules deprecated"
>
> Is another sign that people here are trying to emulate even the bad
> sides of Windows.
>
> *I* (ME!) wan't to have fucking control over my modules back you
> frickin' desktop loving auto-this, auto-that assholes!!!!
Try OpenBSD. No modules to worry about, no auto-anything, dmesg shows
you everything you have and where it is. Simple. Only downsides: if
you need a module for some piece of closed-source hardware; package
management is quite as simple as with aptitude; no volume-management
like LVM or easy software-raid; no flash-enabled browser.
I agree that linux has become a cliky-pointy-lindows thingy unless you
fight it. I don't do CUPS, I don't do DTE. I use lpr, CLI, startx,
icewm. To mount a USB stick I have an entry in fstab for /dev/sdc1. If
udev were to act up, I'd use LABLE=stick1: this is the fight-it part.
Doug.
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