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Written by payload the 15 Dec 12 at 00:57. New
Right now I'm searching for a new and recent laptop and I want to run it with Ubuntu. One year ago I buyed one and brought it back immediately because the wifi chip won't support Linux any time soon. No new laptop for me since that.

Right now I stumbled upon http://friendly.ubuntu.com but didn't found enough entries (3). I also didn't know about https://friendly.ubuntu.com/participate/ until recently. Despite I installed Ubuntu in different years several times.

I want a better overview about hardware, which happens to support Ubuntu. I think potential users of Ubuntu need more, reliable information about devices, which will give them a pleasant first-time experience with Ubuntu. (I also believe the world needs devices with pre-installed GNU/Linux, but this is beyond the scope of this idea.)

Let's propose many solutions and more than one can be done to solve this idea.

Category: Web Ecosystem ?
Related project: friendly.ubuntu.com
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Solution #3: have a person check for new hardware
Written by payload the 15 Dec 12 at 01:09.
A dedicated person who gets paid to check for hardware (beginning with the popular or new) and
* either check the kernel and other related packages, if they documented any support for this hardware
* or buy and try this hardware.
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Solution #4: talk and write about it
Written by payload the 15 Dec 12 at 02:15.
Use all your blogs, feeds and casts to spread the word about Ubuntu Friendly and act by example. I want to see blog posts like "My Samsung NC10 is Ubuntu Friendly!" in the Ubuntu Planet.
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Solution #5: Prompt the user (say) four weeks after installation or distribution upgrade
Written by PaddyLandau the 8 Jan 13 at 13:46.
When the user freshly installs Ubuntu, or upgrades from a prior distribution, there often are teething problems. Four weeks is generally a good time span to iron them out.

Prompt the user roughly four weeks after a fresh installation or a distribution upgrade with a simple window, something along the lines of:

To help the community find out about hardware compatibility and fix driver problems, we would like to perform some Ubuntu system tests. The tests will take 15 minutes or less. All you need do is let the program run the tests for you, and tell the program which of the tests worked.
* Yes, please run it now
* Please remind me later
* No thanks (do not remind me again)
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Solution #6: Create open API for http://friendly.ubuntu.com
Written by aerse the 9 Jan 13 at 12:45.
I'm representative of aerse.com.

Aerse is a Database that contains specifications of mobile phones, computer hardware components and other electronic devices.

Having open API allows us to get compatibility data for every hardware component we have. Aerse provides general hardware information (CPU, RAM etc) and could additionally provide Ubuntu support, i.e. "OS: Ubuntu 12.04"

API pseudocode example:
List getUbuntuSupportVersions(String modelName, String vendorName);

There are a lot of content providers like Aerse on the market. For example, the biggest is http://www.icecat.biz/

It is possible to reach them and promote Ubuntu support API.

Having open API will help to reach retailer's PIM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_information_management ) systems hence spread the word about Ubuntu compatibility.


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