A few more comments

A few more comments

Posted Dec 15, 2005 8:16 UTC (Thu) by davidw (subscriber, #947)
In reply to: Linux Incompatibility List - Ooops:-) by davidw
Parent article: "Just works with Linux"

Turns out the emails warning me were thrown out by Thunderbird's spam filter:-( I'm not really very happy with it (tons of spam gets through, and apparently it loses important emails once in a while), but that's another matter.

One way to make a compatibility list work would be to automate it, to take some of the annoyance out of reporting things.

You'd run a program which would pop up a dialog asking you if it's ok to look at your hardware and send the information back to some centralized database in order to help improve Linux. At that point, it would look through your system, and ask you whether everything seems to be working ok, or where possible, automate testing. That might be sort of tricky, though, especially where less knowledgeable users are concerned...

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