On 03/03/2008, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Nayyar Ahmad wrote: > Hi *, > > today talking on freenode's #fedora i came to know that there is'nt any > standard HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) for fedora 8, possibly reason > Fedora's 13 month life cycle, but i thought there must be one for at > least more stable hardware? Lifecycle doesn't really have much to do with it but the sheer amount of effort required to maintain a accurate compatibility matrix without a associated test suite is just too high to be doing this manually.</blockquote> <div> even Redhat discontinued the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/hcl">http://www.redhat.com/hcl</a> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Smolt allows anyone to submit their hardware profile, rate it and document anything to do with their hardware including workarounds, additional drivers etc in the smolt wiki. Efforts like these are probably more effective. Rahul -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards mak ----------------------- Hacking is good Hackers human