Device Manager ?

[maverick]

Does LINUX have one ? a device manager ?
if not;
Why ?

This may be the only thing stopping LINUX from taking over,
other then the fact that everyone(Red Hat etc...) are starting to charge! even to download! iso's

thanks

 

[keiichi]

Yep, it's got a device manager. It's called a Filesystem, and /dev is all of your devices.

You can control, to a pretty fine grain, who uses what resources and access. Be aware that you control 3d accesses through /etc/X11/XF86Config by setting the DRI priv's.

So what exactly did you have in mind about a "device manager"? A gui like what Windows has?

 

[maverick]

That would be nice to be able to give my clients that so they would stop asking for it...

 

[keiichi]

Both Gnome and KDE has a sort of MSWindows-like device manager. It should be in the Control Panel of KDE.

The KDE one looks exactly like MSWindows panel..