On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:02 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matthew Miller wrote: > > |On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:20:45AM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote: > | > |>Now back to my original question, has anyone else chucked this thing > |>in the trash where it belongs and gone back to devfs, and what > |>problems or issues need to be watched out for. > | > | > |I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "back to devfs", because Fedora > Core > |and before that Red Hat Linux never used devfs, and to my knowledge, > devfs > |never was working perfectly (and was always marked as "experimental"). > | > |udev/hotplug may have some growing pains. However, by switching to devfs, > |you'd be moving away from something that's at under very active > development > |to obsolete, unmaintained code due to be completely removed from the > kernel. > |That's the main thing I'd suggest watching out for. :) > > This morning I had to re-install Windows because udev failed to build > the /dev link for a USB based scanner. This has set my transition to > a Linux network back 2 years. And I get accused of whinnying. > > I want whatever was working before it uninstalled and upgraded with > udev. I was under the impression that it was devfs, but I am > wondering if it was static dev. Whatever it is, udev failed not on > something complex that can be explained away, but on a basic USB > scanner. Using Beta (closer to alpha if you ask me) software in a > stable distribution is setting the Linux movement back, not forward. > Is your scanner one of the supported ones? How can you legitimately say "set my transition to a Linux network back 2 years"? Unless you are planning to just dump it as you have already gone back to your other OS, then hide for that long. Yes there are development pains. No one has ever said Linux is finished. Take a breather and look at what is here instead of whining because of one problem and refusing to research the solution. BTW, Fedora Core is bleeding edge. If you don't like using the latest, get a distro that is on a slower development path. > Kevin Fries > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCBFNXiFq1Eo16+CgRAgSNAKC0ZXanGJtSHNPp+je2bnKcLt85mACgh/S8 > bHcFF0ez9Pi3javYn/Peas8= > =uYj9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
