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• Using DKMS for driver Management

  Hey All, I have decided to take the initiative of switching to a better management system for the next revision of Driver On Demand. DKMS (http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms.html) is a driver management system designed by Dell released under the GPL, that not only supports both binary and source packages, but can also patch the source for specific versions of the kernel. Directly from Dells site: DKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. It is designed to create a framework where kernel dependent module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This will allow Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. Another major benefit is that upgrading drivers is significantly safer, because you can easily switch between versions, use RPM based packages, rollback drivers, and uninstall them easily.. Basically, everything we wouldn't have had before. What I am really seeking now is other companies opinions of DKMS.. It is GPL so i believe it to be a great choice, however, I'd like to know if anyone has any problems with it.. The use of DKMS will also dramatically reduce the complexity of the driver definition files, and prevent the need for reinventing the wheel. It also prevents the creation of a new unneccessary standard. One problem in the past with linux has been that there have been many different packaging systems. My hope is that DKMS, and the use of XML based driver definitions will be extendible enough to last years into the future. Thank you for all your support.

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• New Linux Driver Search engine under development

  Well, the stats have been dropping on this site. I'm guessing people are under the impression that I have stopped working on driver on demand. The reason that I have been quiet has been that I have been working on a online driver search engine which will work eventually with Driver On Demand. So far, the base has been developed, and I am working on a few more changes to make it usable (the base is already in there.. just needs a few HTML changes and it will work.) You can already mess around in it, be aware that when you log in, it wont say you are yet, until u click another link. The site is: http://one.logicnoc.com/~auzy/index.php Dont be surprised if you get errors while loading it. Its still under active development, which means that I'm actively fixing/changing things.. chances are if u try an hour later though, it might suddenly work. I'm in need of a good name for the search engine though, and a good possible URL, so if anyone has any ideas, tell me. ;) Finally, we have to thank Andreas Nilsson for working on a new logo for driver on demand.. The 2 possible choices are: http://ramzeus.mine.nu/~nisse/diverse/temp/driverondemand/logo_sty.png http://ramzeus.mine.nu/~nisse/diverse/temp/driverondemand/logo_tux.png Feel free to post which one I should use ;) I'm hoping that by the end of the week, we finally will have a very decent search engine for linux drivers (no more googling needed), which will eventually be modified to work with driver on demand alpha 2 too. I know that it appears that the project might seem dead, but thats cause I've been working constantly on this new search engine ;) The search engine code will be released when the code has stabilised more.

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