Smolt - a better hardware database

Przemysław Kulczycki przemekkulczycki at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 21:03:26 UTC 2008


Hi.
OpenSuse recently adopted Smolt as their hardware database tool.
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/12/01/smolt-and-opensuse/

Shouldn't Ubuntu follow their example?

There have been a few specs about creating a better hardware database
for Ubuntu but none of them succeded.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ExtendHwdb
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareDatabaseClientOverhaul
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetterHardwareDatabase

Smolt is much more mature now, it's open, and it's already used by 2
major distros (Fedora, Suse)
http://smolts.org/smolt-wiki/Main_Page

There is also a patch that adds Ubuntu support
http://xyzz.kexik.net/node/12
But it might be outdated by now.

Can anyone finally package Smolt for Ubuntu and make Ubuntu use it in
place of our old hwdb/hwtest tool?
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