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Hardware4Linux Launches

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http://hardware4linux.info/ is a new web site about hardware for Linux. The site allows to browse systems and components to find the ones that work or don't work with Linux. It works in a collaborative way: users install an LSB package to collect their hardware and system configuration, upload the collected data to the site and then rate the compatibility of their hardware components on the site.

http://hardware4linux.info/ is a new web site about hardware for Linux. The site allows to browse systems and components to find the ones that work or don't work with Linux. It works in a collaborative way: users install an LSB package to collect their hardware and system configuration, upload the collected data to the site and then rate the compatibility of their hardware components on the site.



Report your systems to help map the actual hardware support under Linux!



Here is the current statistics about the reported distributions:



  • Ubuntu 7.04 : 54 systems
  • Mandriva Linux 2007.1 : 33 systems
  • Debian lenny/sid : 29 systems
  • Mandriva Linux 2008.0 : 19 systems
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 : 14 systems
  • Arch Linux Duke : 12 systems
  • Debian 4.0 : 12 systems
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 : 7 systems
  • Mandriva Linux 2007.0 : 6 systems
  • Arch Linux (Duke) : 3 systems
  • Debian 3.1 : 3 systems
  • Ubuntu 7.10 : 3 systems
  • openSUSE 10.2 : 3 systems
  • Fedora Core 5 : 2 systems
  • Fedora Core 6 : 2 systems
  • SUSE LINUX 10.1 : 2 systems
  • Ubuntu 6.10 : 2 systems
  • Arch Linux 0.8 : 1 system
  • CentOS 4.5 : 1 system
  • Fedora 7 : 1 system
  • Frugalware 0.6 : 1 system
  • Gentoo Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha3 : 1 system
  • Mandriva Linux 2006.0 : 1 system
  • Mandriva Linux 2012 : 1 system
  • PCLinuxOS 2007 : 1 system
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 : 1 system
  • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 : 1 system
  • Scientific Linux SL 4.4 : 1 system
  • Slackware 10.2.0 : 1 system
  • Slackware 11.0.0 : 1 system
  • Ubuntu 6.06.1 : 1 system
  • Zenwalk 4.0 : 1 system
  • Zenwalk 4.6 : 1 system

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Comments (6)

Too bad

robT ·
It's too bad that these sites that track this stuff end up falling to the wayside. There is so much out-of-date information regarding Linux help still coming up from Internet searches.
tracyanne ·
This one show more promise than most.
Sander_Marechal ·
I agree. Being nearly fully automated makes it a lot easier. He should try to get his collector in the big distro's repositories.
Aladdin_Sane ·
Needs a wiki for maintainability. That way, it should be lowest possible maintenance for one person.

The site itself I found impressive. "More impressive than most of this type."

The hardware drilled down to the very specific.

Example: it knew that my BCM5782 based NIC was made by HP. Even I barely remembered that: I was buying the chip, not the card (to evaluate the lameness of BCM network chips & drivers compared to Intel).

The software was easy to install on Debian with alien, the instructions were clear, and obvious.

Privacy issues kept me from trying it at first. Then I realized that it wasn't going to keep a process in memory for monitoring, but only take a snapshot. The two step process allows one to decide to upload or not, the report simply gets written to /tmp.

Could not find the info on nVidia cards on the site, but everything else I looked for was easy to find and very specific, which will prevent confusion in the future.

Good planning.

So, now what?

canadianwriterm ·
Okay, uploaded the date and viewed it on the Web page. I see a list of my components, but now what? There doesn't seem to be any indication of whether the components are compatible, other than the fact that my computer works and I uploaded the date. Is that the idea? Can't figure out what it means.
fredl Story submitter ·
The idea then is to look at your system to see if other people have rated your components or to rate them yourself to give info to other users. You can see the ratings for components when there is a number between -5 (doesn't work) to 5 (works out of the box) with the number of persons that have rated the component.

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