a thought on laptops

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 10.11.2004, 11:23 +0000 schrieb Thom May:
> Already on the todo list. (see the note about HardwareDatabase on the wiki:
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryGoals)
> This needs fleshing out and speccing - I sent an initial email to the
> sounders list back in august with some preliminary thoughts.
so i think i found one task for me at the conference... i'd like to join
this one and help out where i can ... :)

i attended the kickoff meeting, there the HardwareDatabase idea sounded
more like an online tool to determine the support status for specific
pieces of hardware.

i just read this one:
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/attachments/20040820/92c7aa12/attachment.mht
...

- regarding the amount of users that already reported things, i think it
should be possible already to use my idea as an initial step (even it
would require a dmidetect-udeb)...
- i would suggest to collect the data automated (dmidetect, mdetect etc)
without aksing the user any question except...."Do you allow to collect
your HW infos to improve the product ?" 
- i think the data collection should be a default task in
base-config....

btw....
how about a HardwareDatabase wiki page as this thing will get
bigger....?

ciao
	oli

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