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12-22-2008, 11:10 PM
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Panther
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Hackensack, NJ
Posts: 240
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenophage
Indeed - I'm delaying my hardware build for this. You're doing everyone a great service, and are to be congratulated.
Here's an idea for the future - what if, instead of a huge, arcane list of drivers, you were to enlist the help of the various people who've put together hardware support databases, and made the install options break down by motherboard? That way, a user could just tick one checkbox for his mobo, and get all the patches and kexts known to be needed to make it work. AFAIK, no OSx86 distro does this. It could be major. Yours could be not only the most vanilla, with the broadest support, but also the easiest to use, and hence the most Apple-like.
Just a thought.
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I had this idea when talking to ~pcwiz about it, the problem is that we'd need to create packages for every motherboard, which is tons of combinations of drivers and kernels and all kinds of stuff. This takes up a lot of space on the DVD, as you have to include all the stuff in the packages. Keeping it int he "arcane" way is the best, as you only need one copy of each driver or patch, and you can still apply the ones for your specific motherboard.
Also, there is already a app that does this, written by ~pcwiz as well.
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