Re, 2011/6/1 Kristoffer Grundström <[email protected]>
> 2011-06-01 11:50, Michael Scherer skrev: > > Le mercredi 01 juin 2011 à 11:06 +0200, Kristoffer Grundström a écrit : >> >>> I'm fully aware of that we're releasing Mageia 1 now& since Mandriva >>> (that we forked from) has got a HCL, aren't we going to have it as well? >>> >> Nothing is planned so far. >> >> In order to have it, we should : >> - define what is the need ( if possible, explain why this isn't covered >> by existing shared initiatives such as smolt.org, hardware4linux, etc, >> etc ) >> - find a software for that, wit the usual criteria ( free, packaged, not >> a pain to maintain, without catastrophic security record, among other ) >> - create a package if it doesn't exist, have it uploaded >> - setup a puppet module for that >> - deploy it >> >> As the first question do not requires any specific technical skill, I >> guess anybody can answer : >> "what is the exact need that is not fulfilled by existing system" >> >> My need is to do the same as with the Mandriva-HCL. To install Mageia on > any computer & tell users if Mageia works well on it on not. > Well, hwreport for http://hardware4linux.org and smolts for http://smolts.org can be made available in Mageia on client-side (re-using existing server-side). See http://hardware4linux.info/distrib/44407/ :-) I've some use-cases at http://mageiacauldron.tuxfamily.org/TestingMageia1HCL and http://faq.tuxfamily.org/CommunicationLibreHardware/En feel free to add your own use-cases (those are wiki pages). @++ Ben'. aka baud123
