Announcing LHCP - Linux Hardware Compatibility Project

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Am Montag, den 29.01.2007, 16:24 +0100 schrieb Phil Knirsch:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> We've recently started working on a project called Linux Hardware 
> Compatibility
> Project or in short LHCP. Goals are:
> 
>   * Provide a list of working hardware for people wanting to buy a new 
> computer
>   * Provide an idea on what hardware our/your distribution in run on
>   * Provide a list of hardware we need to improve support for
>   * Provide an interface to all above that allows simple and complicated 
> queries
>   * Get the user a list of thing that should work and a way to test that
>   * Tell the user how good his hardware is supported
> 
> There have been several Hardware Compatibility lists from vendors and
> other projects in the past, but most of them were limited in one
> aspect or another - so we start our own.
> 
> To achive this we are building a modular framework to generate, collect, 
> submit
> and analyze information about all components of systems running Linux
> and how well each component works.
> 
> The project is currently in it's infancy, but following the typical 
> pragmatic
> approach of open source projects ("Release early, release often!") we've
> decided to already officially announce it.
> 
> Current status is that the basic GUI application for testing is up and 
> running
> with some test modules. We're now in the process of writing the first real
> data collection and test modules and are currently starting to design the
> server end of the side.
> 
> The home page of the project can be found here:
> 
> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/LHCP
> 
> If you want to take a look at the current source code you can checked it out
> using Mercurial in read only mode like this:
> 
> hg clone http://hg.fedoraproject.org/hg/hosted/LHCP
> 
> For development discussions a mailing list has been set up here:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lhcp-devel
> 
> Although the project is hosted under Fedora we're aiming it to be very
> distribution independant, so supporting other distributions should be 
> easy to
> do. We have some basic requirements on what is needed on the system for 
> it to
> simply work, but a lot of things will be optional.
> 
> Happy hacking,
> 
> Read ya, Phil & Fabi
> 
> -- 
> Philipp Knirsch      | Tel.:  +49-711-96437-470
> Development          | Fax.:  +49-711-96437-111
> Red Hat GmbH         | Email: Phil Knirsch <phil at redhat.de>
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> Motd:  You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
> 

Looks good. Will this enable a user to link to a specific piece of
hardware for bugzilla reporting?

Any chance of a yum repo for easy updates (and more likely-to-test
ness)?

(Dark and dusty weather?)