laptop hcl matrix

[Phil Knirsch]

Darth Johns, Dark Lord of Web Developers wrote:
> I'd be willing to help as well. Let me know if theres anything I can do.
> 
> On 12/6/06, *Vitor Domingos* <vd at paradigma.pt <mailto:vd at paradigma.pt>> 
> wrote:
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>     On 12/06/2006 12:15 PM, Phil Knirsch wrote:
>      > I've already started setting up a project targeted in that direction,
>      > but it will be a little larger than only laptops.
> 
>     Great!
> 
>      > The idea is to collect information about working and non working
>     things
>      > for various distributions on as many different machines as possible.
>      > Laptops will be ofc a larger part in that, especially as there are
>      > oftentimes things in laptops that don't quite work as expected.
> 
>     Right. This could be done at least in two diferent ways;
>     1) automated hardware discovery (thru anaconda, kudzu, script, etc) and
>     then report (like Ubuntu hardware detection report)
>     2) user input (thru form page)
> 
>     The first one gives us a more detailed (and it's the best) report, but
>     there can be always some 'dissidents' that dont like this intrusive
>     report. So #2 can be in handy for those that just want to say 'it
>     works', and could be done without the need for a formal project.
> 
>      > As soon as i have some more info i'll make a longer post here on the
>      > Laptop list and on fedora-devel.
> 
>     Need any help ? :)
> 
>     - --
>     Vitor Domingos
>     Paradigma.pt <http://Paradigma.pt>

As soon as we have everything set up with the project i'll post some 
more stuff. And ofc, help is always appreciated. :)

Read ya, Phil

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