Re: [PLUG] devfs, scsi, & 2.6

[Dan Crosta <dcrosta@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> devfs is deprecated and has some problems. udev is now the preferred
> method of userspace device handling for the 2.6.x series. See the below
> links for more info (warning: some have a Gentoo bent; it seems that
> Gentoo guys are at the forefront of this particular field):

I second the motion to use udev -- /dev/ipod, baby. udev gives you pretty
fine-grained control of what your devices are called, and by default
creates device nodes similar to what you'd expect... /dev/hd*, /dev/sd*,
etc.

> I would also recommend moving away from Debian to basically anything
> else; Debian's release process is very slow and totally b0rked. As
> well, nearly every other distro has an answer to APT these days (most
> can use APT as well) so that's no longer a selling point for Debian.
> Personally, I would recommend Gentoo.

Well, they say sarge is going stable on or about Sept. 15, so maybe Debian
will be worthwhile again at that point. I run Gentoo on my box for really
up-to-date stuff, but we use Debian for its stability & security at the
SCCS. I find that emerge/portage lack some (imo) important features, like
being able to search uninstalled packages for a file (trivial example:
lets say I want to find packages that install /usr/bin/ftp, which somehow
didn't get installed on my system -- emerge, in fact the portage tree
itself, offers no way to do that). On the other hand, you get pretty
optimized binaries, and can configure support for lots of stuff on a
per-package basis.


dsc
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