Frederic Lepied announced the hardware4linux.info website on the Linux Kernel mailing list, "the site is collecting hardware compatibilities and incompatibilities with Linux distributions in a collaborative way: users run a hardware collector program, upload the resulting file and then rate and comment how their hardware works."

The project's website goes on to explain, "components are rated according to their Linux compatibility. You'll see on the site some numbers like 4.5 x 2 for rated components. This means that the mean note for the component is 4.5 and that 2 persons have noted this component." The rating scale goes from -5 "does not work" up to 5 "works out of the box".

From: Frederic Lepied <flepied@...>
Subject: Announce: hardware4linux.info
Date: Oct 2, 5:53 pm 2007

Hello,
Now that the site has a few months of life, it's time to advertize its

existence to the kernel community! The site is collecting hardware

compatibilities and incompatibilities with Linux distributions in a

collaborative way: users run a hardware collector program, upload the

resulting file and then rate and comment how their hardware works. You

could be interested in the pages around kernel modules:

http://hardware4linux.info/modules/. You can also access to the

information concerning PCI and USB devices using the following urls:

http://hardware4linux.info/pci/////

http://hardware4linux.info/usb///.
Any feedback welcome!

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Fred - May the source be with you
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