online article: Should Linux vendors think differently?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Martin J Hooper">

> Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> 
> >Not at all, your comments were useful in galvanising work on that front.
> >The new laptop-testing team has been doing fantastic work, and I think
> >we should be able to turn the hardware db into a great resource for
> >hardware compatibility testing too.
> 
> Mark how about a program that will gather up the hardware details of 
> your computer and, with the users permission, send them to you to 
> populate the database with...

In 5.04 and after:

  Applications -> System Tools -> Ubuntu Device Database

- Jeff

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