[TriLUG] Why I love Kudzu

[Robert Dale]

On 12/7/06, Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime at cpphacker.co.uk> wrote:
> 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>


Kudzu was made by Red Hat a long time ago.  It's usually one of the
first things I disable. :)
Maybe it's much better now, but years ago it was terrible.  Then
again, my hardware doesn't change at all.  You can definitely find it
on Red Hat and Fedora dists.

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/additional-projects/kudzu/


-- 
Robert Dale