A question about the "how to make it work" issue of my week.

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Mon, 10/13/08, Justin Dugger <jldugger at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:58 AM, David Nicol
> <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Oren Beck
> > <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone direct me to an explanation of 
> >> how/why an installed from Live distro seems 
> >> to lack the auto detect on startup 
> >> properties ?
> >
> > This issue is yet another example of free 
> > software only working as well as it needs 
> > to satisfy the needs of whoever has the 
> > expertise to improve it.
> >
> > I was pleasantly surprised at the 
> > autorecognition ability of slax. Have you 
> > tried Slax, instead of knoppix?
> 
> Ubuntu has some pretty good stuff coming up 
> at the end of the month:

So /after/ ITEC then?  :-(

> * the new X configuration is based on HAL 
>  and should autodetect a lot of stuff
> * a USB image creation GUI to transfer a 
>  read only LiveCD .iso to a writable usb 
>  stick (it seems Fedora's had one for some
>  time, but will hopefully be useful for 
>  more than just one release)