nodata wrote:
Am Montag, den 29.01.2007, 16:24 +0100 schrieb Phil Knirsch:
Hello everyone.
We've recently started working on a project called Linux Hardware Compatibility Project or in short LHCP. Goals are:
- Provide a list of working hardware for people wanting to buy a new
computer
- Provide an idea on what hardware our/your distribution in run on
- Provide a list of hardware we need to improve support for
- Provide an interface to all above that allows simple and complicated
queries
- Get the user a list of thing that should work and a way to test that
- Tell the user how good his hardware is supported
There have been several Hardware Compatibility lists from vendors and other projects in the past, but most of them were limited in one aspect or another - so we start our own.
To achive this we are building a modular framework to generate, collect, submit and analyze information about all components of systems running Linux and how well each component works.
The project is currently in it's infancy, but following the typical pragmatic approach of open source projects ("Release early, release often!") we've decided to already officially announce it.
Current status is that the basic GUI application for testing is up and running with some test modules. We're now in the process of writing the first real data collection and test modules and are currently starting to design the server end of the side.
The home page of the project can be found here:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/LHCP
If you want to take a look at the current source code you can checked it out using Mercurial in read only mode like this:
hg clone http://hg.fedoraproject.org/hg/hosted/LHCP
For development discussions a mailing list has been set up here:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lhcp-devel
Although the project is hosted under Fedora we're aiming it to be very distribution independant, so supporting other distributions should be easy to do. We have some basic requirements on what is needed on the system for it to simply work, but a lot of things will be optional.
Happy hacking,
Read ya, Phil & Fabi
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Looks good. Will this enable a user to link to a specific piece of hardware for bugzilla reporting?
Good point, we'll add that to feature list.
Any chance of a yum repo for easy updates (and more likely-to-test ness)?
Yea, as soon as we're done with the server side as well we'll be doing some "real" packaging of the whole project with specfile and autoFOO magic.
(Dark and dusty weather?)
Weather sucked here during the last few weeks so this looked like the perfect test module. :)
Read ya, Phil
PS: Don't mention the rocket :)