Smolt, Open Invitation

Posted Jul 18, 2007 5:48 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Smolt, Open Invitation by jitz0722
Parent article: Smolt, Open Invitation

hardware4info was a effort from a person at Mandriva who left to Intel and the project seems to have stalled. You basically have to run a command and manually upload the results while smolt is actively maintained and makes it very easy to send results back.

I am in touch with Mandriva in discussions about them adopting smolt. Hopefully we have a more universally adopted solution.

Smolt, Open Invitation

Posted Jul 18, 2007 16:57 UTC (Wed) by fred (guest, #14141) [Link] (4 responses)

What make you think that http://hardware4linux.info/ is stalled ? It's actively maintained and has very active users.

Thanks,
Fred

Smolt, Open Invitation

Posted Jul 18, 2007 17:34 UTC (Wed) by jitz0722 (guest, #46310) [Link] (2 responses)

so cannot harware4linux and smolt work together. ( as one??? )
-Not sure we need both as each wants to cover all the Linuxes.

Is there a reason for the fragmentation??

Regards

Smolt, Open Invitation

Posted Jul 18, 2007 19:30 UTC (Wed) by fred (guest, #14141) [Link] (1 responses)

Competition is always good ;-) Having said that I think we could work together. Is the Smolt database available somewhere ? I would need to check if both are compatible. OTOH the thing I don't like about Smolt is the dependency on python, dbus, hal and gtk to collect the hardware info...

Smolt, Open Invitation

Posted Jul 18, 2007 20:58 UTC (Wed) by jitz0722 (guest, #46310) [Link]

Hi:

I personally am not involved with smolt. I like the idea of there
being one place where we can show linux is alive,well, and growing. Enough to
get the attention of manufacturers so that they open up more to
the idea that "supporting Linux is good for their financials". Probably
the only way most will listen.

Other than that this is the Contact of the person
who is maintaining smolt. Maybe you two can find a common
thread to grow from.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MikeMcGrath
mmcgrath (a) redhat [dot] com

Regards and good luck

Smolt, Open Invitation

Posted Jul 18, 2007 17:36 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

That was the information I got. Smolt has nearly 80000 profiles while the total amount of systems registered is in the low hundreds for example.