alt Hacker NewsSo why can't someone (probably the distro) build a utility that detects the hardware and installs the required kernal module?
We can have security and convenience.
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johnny22 • today at 12:07 AM
and how would it get that module without network access. I'd say for network drivers specifically, this is tough one.
It would work for various other drivers though.
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That existed for a very short period of time before it became simpler to just ship everything all the time. I remember at least one distro booting with a single processor kernel and detecting that it could use an SMP kernel and did I want to pull it down?