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Forgive what might be a silly question, but I've been wondering if I could omit UDev on an old P3-750 laptop.
I read up on it a little bit, but most of it is admittedly over my head. Prudence says I should keep it since I'm not really sure what it does, but on the other hand, it slows my boot times by quite a bit.
Can someone help me understand what it does and if I need it on an older machine like mine?
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: This is a Latitude CPx, 750Mhz, 256Mb, ATI Rage Mobility M1, 20Gb. Cheers!
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Yes, you need it. udev creates the /dev directory and handles things when hardware changes - i.e. plugging in a usb device and things.
You *can* do without it by making a static /dev, but it's really not worth it. udev should not be obtrusive on low-spec systems.
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Great. That's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks.
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whatever happened to the other alternatives like n-dev or nano-dev or whatever it was called
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Ndevfs was hideously incomplete last I checked, and probably unmaintained by now. Last I saw of it you couldn't use it if you wanted ALSA, DRI, or a bunch of other things - it was usable on, say, embedded systems, but that's about it.
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