Standardised Hardware Support Spec - Please Review

[Alex Jones]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:10 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> 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.

Something akin to Wine's AppDB would be fantastic.

> Corey
>