Feed up with a few other distros, i am giving GENTOO another look.
I tried it when it first came out and had .. hmmm. .... a bit of trouble.
I assume things are alot more refined now.
I am looking for a distro to base a LIVE DVD (or CD) from,
Can anyone comment on how good GENTOO LIVE CD is on device detection,
in particular Network cards, USB, and to a lesser extent graphics/monitors.
If someone, in the know, could compare GENTOO against say SUSE or Knoppix in that
area, that would be very helpfull.
I produce a LIVE DVD for a company, and SUSE has made a pretty good bases,
but their release cycle is not to quick, and of course GENTOO, a good thing in this case,
has almost a perpetual release cycle.
In particular, DELL has started selling PC's with no PS2 ports for keyboards/mice,
and thats taking its toll on distros that were released last year.
So I am contemplating moving to GENTOO, but I can't test the device recognition
on other then a few machines I have, but when I release it to my target audience,
it has to work 99.99% across 400+ employees computers, which can be just about
any computer of recent vintage, including of course brand new Dells with no ps2 ports.
-tl
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"GENTOO" has no problem working with USB keyboard/mice. I used a KVM switch which uses a USB port to hook up both keyboard and mouse (both PS/2) to one PC, and it worked fine. This was, however, with the universal install cd for x86. The HID device support is built-in the kernel, and if you're going to build a live cd from scatch (Gentoo even has instructions on their website on how to do this with their distro), just make sure to compile HID device support into the kernel.
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- Mark Shields
