General questions about HAL

[Niki Kovacs]

Quoting Artem Kachitchkine <Artem.Kachitchkin at Sun.COM>:

>
> > PS: is this list more developer- or user-oriented? Or both?
>
> More developer oriented. In general, it is very, very wrong for users to
> even *know* about HAL, udev et al, let alone to try compile and
> configure. It's a distro's job to build the best user experience they
> can from the bricks lying around.

I work as sort of a Linux consultant, which means I replace broken Windows
installs by shiny new Linux installs. I do this regularly since 2002. I came to
try out many different distros (Mandrake, Suse, Red Hat, Aurox, Fedora, Mepis,
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Vector, Zenwalk, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, even
scripted LFS...). No troll intended, but the only distro that qualified
flawlessly (which means *no* problems to install on *any* machine and *every*
app working) for the job was good old Slackware (LFS was good too, but took way
too long to build on old machines). Unfortunately Slackware doesn't ship with
HAL. Hence my question for comprehensive doc.

I've seen some implementations of HAL on distros like Aurox, Suse or Freerock
GSB, but they're all quite buggy. If the perfect distro shipping HAL existed, I
would gladly use it. (I must add that the desktop I use is a personal mixture of
XFCE 4.2.3.2 with a minimal set of GNOME-libs... modern yet working on old
hardware)

May I infer from your response that there is no doc (comprehensive or
techno-laconic) available?

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs