http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4474/
Is a project to collect hardware profiles. It would be great if Ubuntu joined, to make a great database of

1) what hardware is in use
2) what hardware is well supported
3) a way for users to indicate if they are willing to test drivers etc. for their hardware.

[64 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #4474


]]> en-us Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:22:33 +0000 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:16:23 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4474/ I would like to see stats for users and hardware profiles.
Smolt needs some work too, but at the moment I think it's the most complete solution.
Another option for smolt, was add the information about the instaled packages... so developers could have some stats about their projects.]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:51:25 +0000 OpenSuSE recently added support for Smolt.
I was able to send Hardware Profile to Smalt from OpenSUSE 11.1 Beta Live Install within few seconds.

Benefits of Smolt:
- no registration required to submit report
This is very good for first-time Linux users, or people who are willing to report their hardware/successful installs, but
very short on time to come through registration/login/passowrd procedures

- you CAN register / login, and update status of different components later.# smoltSendProfile -a
rate
At a moment you can just re-run Smolt from command line and ask it to generate Admin password for your submitted Smolt profile page.
# smoltSendProfile -a
Password would be at the and of submission info.

At a moment (Dec.1st, 2008) there are 683750 hardware profiles available on Smolt Statistics page:
http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html

You can browse stats by different components/vendors, and easily find PC/notebook model which suits your needs and have good support for modern Linux distribution.

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