Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Sep 2009 22:38 UTC, submitted by EvilWells
Developer Frans Pop, author of debtree, posted an article showing the evolution in size of the GNOME desktop environment in recent Debian releases. The picture he paints isn't particularly pretty: the default GNOME install has increased drastically in size over the years.
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RE[8]: Get off my lawn!
by apoclypse on Tue 8th Sep 2009 22:29
in reply to "RE[7]: Get off my lawn!"
Member since:2007-02-17
Hmmm. I think you're right. It wasn't a crazy off the wall argument he posted. He actually posted real valid answers as to why udev was a better choice. Is it? I don't know. OSX seems to be fine without it, but I'm sure OSX has some form of userland daemon doing the same thing udev does now, Maybe OSX doesn't need to do it because of the limited device compatibility? Either way, interesting read. Thanks!
Member since:2009-03-30
OSX seems to be fine without it, but I'm sure OSX has some form of userland daemon doing the same thing udev does now, Maybe OSX doesn't need to do it because of the limited device compatibility? Either way, interesting read. Thanks!
It probably has. But anyway before udev, there was hotplug which handled — what I guess you are refering to — in conjunction with devfs.
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2008-12-26
I'm sure you've read about Greg defending udev, but here it is anyway:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev_vs_devfs
Sounds convincing enough for me.