My idea here its a radical change on how the hardware is installed. I suggest:
- Have a "bullet proof" support for internet connection with ALL the common wireless cards supported (As many as possible).
- Have just basic drivers in the installation cd. Except from the most critical, like vga and internet.
- Canonical would have a large database with all the other drivers, a lot more than the included actually in the live cd (im thinking about having a team working full time on this), and with the internet connection guarantied the installer would install all your hardware with no problem.
- When you connect a new hardware after the installation, it would be installed automatically without any need of unused drivers in your hard drive
I know that not everyone has an internet connection, so another approach would be to have the actual philosophy but with this idea as a plus for the people who actually has an internet connection. And whenever the installer doesnt find the appropriate driver, it goes to canonical and looks there.
Sorry for my English ;)
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