On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:39 +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote: > Hi, > > for Linux, hardware compatibility was ever and still is an issue. At > SUSE we have the CDB, see http://cdb.suse.de to address this. It > collects data of available hardware and tries to judge about the Linux > support. > > The problem with that is that we do not have all available hardware > and even if we had we were not able to test it completely. > However the CDB not only acts as information source for users but > also as an data source for the configuration tool databases like > sax2 and yast and has a direct impact on the distribution quality > as a result. > > Now that we are heading to an open and community driven development > with openSUSE I am happy that we are able to contribute the entire > CDB to the openSUSE project. The contribution consists of PHP webapp > code and the database full of data ;-) > I am confident that we as a community are able to provide a very > actual and complete hardware compatibility list with a real high > quality to our users. > > First ideas about how this project can go forward: > > First, let's discuss how we can achieve a high quality and complete > list of hardware. I hope that the people who already worked on the > cool Hardware Compatibility List in openSUSE > (http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware) step in here and give as much > input as possible and possibly help :-) > > Topics in that discussion may be: How do we ensure the quality of the > data we collect from the users, is the CDB a good idea in > general, are there other, non SUSE related projects that already do > what we want where we want to participate, etc etc. > > Second, lets see if we can/want to recycle code from the former SUSE > CDB and change it to do what we agreed on. > > Finally - implement a bit and launch :-)) > > The SUSE Inttools Team is helping with coding and administration if > required but we would love to see an external maintainer who is > acting responsible for the openSUSE CDB. > > So please speak up with comments and ideas and raise your hand if you > want to code :-) > > regards, > > Klaas >
Since openSUSE cannot afford to test all available hardware lets have a page for user input (monitored to disallow rants) so that a wider range of hardware can be checked for. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
