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Smolt in Mandriva

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 3 comments
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Some time ago, I introduced a package for Smolt in Mandriva Cooker. Smolt is a tool developed for Fedora which collects information about all your hardware and submits it to a central database. On the smolts.org website, people can view all hardware entries and indicate which one is working OK for them. The database is also coupled with a wiki, where extra instructions can be written to get the hardware working. Smolt is used by default already for some time in Fedora and also in OpenSUSE.

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Comments (3)

Smolt sounds nasty. Scrot sounds nasty. fsck sounds nasty. et cetera....ok so smolt is actually a word that means very young salmon. So this means salmon are Linux users?
I still don't like putting information about what I'm running in a public database. I always wonder how it can be used against me. Thanks, but no thanks. To me smolt doesn't just sound nasty, it probably is.

Oh, and tuxchick, if you read the article say "urpmi smolt" aloud and tell me that doesn't sound nastier still.

Oh, and BTW tuxchick, you are evil. You have, by posting this, successfully gotten Steve Hillage's "The Salmon Song" stuck in my brain:

"See the spawning salmon swimming up the stream of time Leaping up the Falls of Man, to the source of Love and Light Guided from Atlantis to the Water-Bearer's jar. Far out-nearer in-and back to where We Are. (Hello!)

You know the way to Be You know the way to Be You know the way to Be Ah ah-we're getting nearer Nearer to the Water Bearer Ooh we're getting nearer We're swimming, swimming, swimming with the Salmon (Ooh! yr. swimming with the Salmon)"
> You have, by posting this, successfully gotten Steve Hillage's "The Salmon Song" stuck in my brain:

Ooh, that IS evil.

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