What's to become of devfs?

Posted Nov 15, 2002 3:04 UTC (Fri) by melauer (guest, #2438)
In reply to: What's to become of devfs? by eru
Parent article: What's to become of devfs?

Also, note that Debian is still on kernel 2.2, which means that devfs isn't even an option for that distro.

debian only has kernel 2.2.x ??

Posted Nov 16, 2002 13:17 UTC (Sat) by ernest (guest, #2355) [Link] (1 responses)

Hu ? I use Debian, it has all the kernels you wish.

You don't need to stick with the one that is installed first, Debian provides packages with the latest and greatest kernels. Including many packages that provided exotic patches not in the mainstream kernel.

and I'm talking stable, not necessarely unstable or testing.

debian only has kernel 2.2.x ??

Posted Nov 25, 2002 3:34 UTC (Mon) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

Yes, but they can't enable devfs by default, they have to use plain /dev. If all they shipped with 2.4, or at least if they shipped 2.4 as the default with no 2.2 install option, they could enable devfs by default.