Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 08, 2006 07:41 AM
RTFA-
Automatic hardware detection helps even on one PC. Sysadmins constantly swap expansion cards in and out of test units. GRML can auto-configure no matter what changes you make.
GRML is clean and fast. On my fastest machine, booting an Ubuntu live CD took seven times longer than GRML CD. And Ubuntu removes hardware detection from disk installations; GRML leaves it in place.
If you want to change the hardware around even after installing (ie, the USB hard drive situation TFA talks about), then you have to keep the autodetection installed. There is one (admittedly, small) way in which ubuntu hardware detection is inferior, even aside from the hardware detection speed difference.
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Re:Hardware detection? Not so rare...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 08, 2006 07:41 AMAutomatic hardware detection helps even on one PC. Sysadmins constantly swap expansion cards in and out of test units. GRML can auto-configure no matter what changes you make.
GRML is clean and fast. On my fastest machine, booting an Ubuntu live CD took seven times longer than GRML CD. And Ubuntu removes hardware detection from disk installations; GRML leaves it in place.
If you want to change the hardware around even after installing (ie, the USB hard drive situation TFA talks about), then you have to keep the autodetection installed. There is one (admittedly, small) way in which ubuntu hardware detection is inferior, even aside from the hardware detection speed difference.
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