Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category (i.e. Motherboard) and check the compatibility sorted by distro etc. * A list of

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Amichai Rotman wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 15:05:58 +0200: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category (i.e.

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
Seems like a great idea to me. On 12/27/2012 05:05 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: * A hardware DB where they can look up a device by category

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Call me old fashioned but why start yet another such database instead of contributing to existing efforts? 2012/12/27 Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name: Amichai Rotman wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 15:05:58 +0200: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
E.S. Rosenberg wrote: Call me old fashioned but why start yet another such database instead of contributing to existing efforts? Not only that, but it won't answer the original question. It will tell you that something did not work and when, but it does not tell that something WILL WORK

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread vordoo
On 2012-12-27 15:05, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hello, It would've been nice to start a website where people could refer to to find out all the practical issues of installing / using FLOSS in Israel: As I see it, the

Re: Hardware Database

2012-12-27 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
How about contributing to Hamakor's effort, which is in Hebrew and Israel specific, regarding vendors and services: http://wiki.hamakor.org.il/index.php/%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA Regarding Hebrew installation guides, I agree that Israeli FOSS lovers do not