kudzu is also the hardware configuration tool for
Red Hat Linux. Introduced in version 6.1, it has made changing hardware on a
Red Hat system _virtually_ trivial. This of course excludes video cards given that
XFree86 controls that realm of things (sigh). kudzu mostly just detects hardware and keeps a database, sending you off to other config tools for the actual configuration, if neccesary. Sound cards bring up
sndconfig, video cards:
Xconfigurator, mice:
mouseconfig, etc.
Seeing as how kudzu (in the other definitions of it) appears to be a
southern thang, and
Red Hat is based in
RTP, I wonder if this played a role when the
Red Hat folk were trying to come up with a name.