--- "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Clearly it is possible to have comprehensive hardware detection, so > presumably somewhere someoene is choosing not to address this issue. > > What is the reason debian does not install like other OSs ? > > m
IANADD (I am not a Debian developer), more than likely becuase Debian supports IA-32, Motoral 68k, SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC, Arm, MiPS, HP PA-RISC, IA-64, S390, SuperH, the Hurd kernel on i386, NetBSD kernel on i386 and Alpha, and the FreeBSD kernel on i386 (http://www.debian.org/ports/). That's 12 hardware architectures and 4 OS kernels. What you are suggesting is not easy, which is probably why it is taking so long to accomplish. RedHat (and many other distros) support only 1 or 2 hardware architectures, thus they have much less to worry about in terms of possible installation scenarios and hardware detection. -Roberto Sanchez ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos - http://loteria.yahoo.es Juega a la Lotería Primitiva sin salir de casa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
