Ubuntu Hardware Documentation

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

shirish wrote:

>  It would be great, in fact really great if it works out with the
> hwdb becoming browseable which is not as of today
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwtest/+bug/30910 unlike
> smolts.org from fedora which gives you some idea atleast.
> 
> http://smolts.org/
> 
> Comments, suggestions welcome :)

I'm thinking a wiki is not the best of places to have a hardware
database. It can be pretty daunting to have to edit a wiki table with
technical information when you've never done that before. As a
result, it's possible that there's quite a bit of hardware missing
from people who just didn't want to bother.

An idea solution would be to create a MySQL database with a PHP
front-end. That way users wouldn't have to know how to format the
information - they could just answer questions by filling in boxes
and making selections from drop-down menus. (:

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Little Girl

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