[TriLUG] Why I love Kudzu

[Phillip Rhodes]

Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2006 10:31, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>   
>> Well "love" might be overstating things a bit, but I was very
>> impressed... I took the hard-drive out of
>> the machine with the suspect motherboard and slapped it into another box
>> that I'd started building
>> a while back...  booted it, kudzu quickly found all the removed and
>> added devices, prompted me
>> to configure everything, and *bam* I'm back in business.  Very painless,
>> all told.  More so than
>> any of the times I had to swap a motherboard on a windows box, for sure.
>> :-)
>>     
>
> Where does one get kudzu these days? It didn't ship with my Mandriva 2007.
>
>
>   
I don't know what other distros still use kudzu, but CentOS - which is 
what I'm
running on the box mentioned above - uses it.  <shrug>


TTYL,


Phil