Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

[Corey Burger]

On 4/4/07, Alex Jones <alex at weej.com> wrote:
> This comes about as more and more people question why their computer
> starts bluetooth services when they don't have a bluetooth device, or
> why I have a HP printer driver control panel applet, or a Palm Pilot
> sync applet, or PCMCIA services, etc. etc. etc...
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StandardisedHardwareSupport
>
> Please let me know what to do next.
>
> Thanks!
> --

>From my perspective, it would be better to create a cross distro list
of hardware compatibilty. This would show which pieces of hardware
work and which don't. The benefits of this are legion, but here are
the main ones:

1. Single database for new linxu users to look in
2. Single database to point vendors at in an attempt to get them to
understand how large their Linux base really is

Probably the best candidate for this is the new LHCP from Fedora,
which is very similar to the Hardware DB Ubuntu has, but has a scope
of more than just Ubuntu. As such, I would create a spec about getting
the common client in Ubuntu.

Corey