[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the deal with SuSE

[Leroy Tennison]

Spicerun wrote:

> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
>> Well, there has been a "shake-up" with devfs and, now, udev. I think
>> udev is finally going to be the future.
>>
>> Under Fedora Core 3+ (and RHEL 4+), it's /dev/input/*.
>
> Indeed, /devfs is removed in the kernel-2.6.13-rcX series, and you 
> have to use udev.
>
> And because of udev no longer making links unless it can detect them, 
> the mouse device will probably be /dev/input/mice in either xorg.conf 
> or XFConfig-4 files (even if legacy /dev/psaux has been selected as 
> well, udev will not create that link either).
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You brought up something I've been wondering about.  I had heard about 
udev but don't know anything about it.  Can you explain briefly (or 
point me to something which does):

What was "wrong" with /devfs that caused it to be replaced
How udev is different
What is so great about udev
How does it affect me practically (where will I see/feel the differences).

I don't want to be cynical but I'm not convinced that 'new' is 
necessarily 'better'.  A prime example is 'nslookup' being depreciated 
and possibly being replaced with 'dig'.