Re: Why Other Linux do not have Auto-Configure as Knoppix?

From: Byron A Jeff (byron_at_cc.gatech.edu)
Date: 10/21/03 

Date: 21 Oct 2003 11:32:12 -0400

In article <slrnbpafd2.miu.grante@isis.visi.com>,
Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
-In article <Ot_kb.8517$Ec1.784940@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Public Interest wrote:
-
-> I heard Knoppix copied the codes elsewhere, maybe from Slak... Linux. I
-> wonder why other linux such as Debian, RH, Mandrak do not have the same
-> auto-configure, if the codes are already there for some time.
-
-How is Knoppix or any other distro going to know how I want things
-configured?

Grant, I know where you are coming from with this sentiment. But Knoppix's
autodetect/autoconfigure system is thought out with some decent defaults.
So when you drop it in, much of the time you get a machine where everything
just works.

In the boot sequence you can specify selective disabling and change the default
values. In addition it's possible to save configurations across multiple boots.

It's a really slick system and I find it invaluable for getting folks started
without having to be sysamdins from the jump.

So I'm on the side of the OP. It would be better if autodetect/autoconfig was
available in standard distributions with the option of disabling/modifying
the process.

BAJ

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