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Progeny's plans could make Linux distros interchangeable (NewsForge)
NewsForge looks at a
Progeny project called Discover, an XML-based utility that may
revolutionize the way Linux detects hardware and loads kernel modules or
other drivers. "We've all seen situations where one distribution
easily configured our sound card but flubbed video setup, while another
handled sound and video without problems but couldn't deal with our
favorite mouse. If Progeny has its way, these inconsistencies will become
things of the past; if one distribution can automatically detect and use a
piece of hardware, why shouldn't all distributions be able to do it? Why
should each distribution publisher be forced to keep a separate hardware
database, which is not a cheap proposition? Why not have a central hardware
information repository that all distribution publishers contribute to and
use?"
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