[ale] good linux

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Fri Jun 15 12:22:38 EDT 2001


On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Pete Hardie wrote:

> Wandered Inn wrote:
> > Another thing I like about Mandrake is the automagic hardware
> > configuration (kudzu??).  When I installed it on my laptop, it
> > recognized the docking station video card and nic.  When I rebooted
> > without the docking station, Mandrake recognized there was a different
> > video card and permitted me to configure it on boot up.  It also
> > recognized the missing nic and asked if it should be removed from the
> > configuration.  Pretty slick.  You ever try swapping video drivers on
> > reboot with NT?
>
> RedHat 7.1 has kudzu, too.  Pretty slick, IMNSHO.

Like most things in Mandrake, Red Hat initially wrote kudzu and now
maintains and releases it under the GPL, and Mandrake just takes advantage
of that....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu

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