My favorite Linux error for 2010: udev

[minthaka]

Each and every year I spend working with Linux brings something new, and disastrous. It looks like this year's favorite is going to be the HAL-udev transition.
I've tried all sorts of *buntu, and now Mandriva 2010.1 RC too, and none of them works correctly, due to the abandonment of HAL. People, do we need such experiments for every year?

[hazel]

On the xorg site it says that hal isn't being maintained and has "deprecated itself". Hence the switch.

[Rubberman]

On the xorg site it says that hal isn't being maintained and has "deprecated itself". Hence the switch.

I wish I could do that, then I could come out with a "new and improved" model of myself next year. I'm sure my wife would appreciate that!

[hazel]

I'm bumping this because I found this snippet in Wikipedia, which might interest people.

Deprecated

As of 2009, distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as GNOME and X.org are in the process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess". It is in the process of being merged into udev (main udev, libudev, and udev-extras) and existing udev and kernel functionality. Ubuntu version 10.04 removes HAL from the boot process.

Initially a new daemon DeviceKit was planned to replace certain aspects of HAL, but in March 2009, DeviceKit was deprecated in favor of adding the same code to udev as a package: udev-extras, and some functions have now moved to udev proper.