Amazing Grace

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>>>> my harddrive, but mainly to sing Kubuntu's praises (and linux in general, as
>>>> this seems to be the trend) for being so freaking flexible as to swap between
>>>> distinctly different hardware and just work!
>>> I guess I chose the right successor to Caldera OpenLinux. :)
>>
>> I don't see how this has much to do with Kubuntu.  As long as the kernel
>> has support for the disk controller (be it SATA or PATA-IDE), it will boot
>> in any system.  This works with SuSE, RHEL, & FC too.
>
> Disk controllers are easy. Sounds to me like it found and reconfigured
> itself for *lots* of new stuff including the graphics, audio, etc.
>
> That's been my experience with *buntu also.

SuSE is horrific in that respect.  FC & RHEL use kudzu for that stuff, and 
it has always worked for me.


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