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Stephane Richard wrote:
> 
> I see we have another victim of "Plug N Pray"  hehehehe

Why do people dislike Plug'N'Play?  I have never had any bother with it, 
so I'm genuinely interested in other problems.

To me all Desktop OS should support runtime configuration of hw that 
doesn't require rebooting (not necessarily plug'n'play).  Rebootings 
taking the easy way out.