UbuntuHCL.org launched [LWN.net]

UbuntuHCL.org launched

Posted Apr 2, 2008 20:47 UTC (Wed) by skvidal (guest, #3094)
In reply to: UbuntuHCL.org launched by Simon80
Parent article: UbuntuHCL.org launched

"Another thing: if I were designing one of these sites, the first thing I'd
ask for would be the output of lspci -n "

You mean like smolt?

http://smolts.org

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UbuntuHCL.org launched

Posted Apr 5, 2008 23:57 UTC (Sat) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link]

Thanks for the pointer, Smolt looks really good and is apparently already having a good impact
on quality of Fedora bug reports re hardware.  There are now packages for Ubuntu, Debian,
Suse, etc, though I'm working on a bug in the submission of data on Ubuntu (at least on my
Feisty box).

The impact of Smolt is far more than hardware compatibility - if it's bundled as opt-out only
in distros, it can also provide detailed arguments to hardware vendors such as NVidia and
others, by making the Linux user base visible to them.  Smolt is very careful to anonymise the
data which is only about hardware, so I see no reason why it could not be opt-out.

Ubuntu also has the Hardware Tester in Hardy which lets the user run tests on most of their
hardware and comment on each item including a yes/no on whether it worked.  This also goes
into a central DB but is distro specific - so it's not a replacement for Smolt.