Bug 138085

Summary:	Hardware support database in opensuse.org
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE.org	Reporter:	Ioannis Manoloudis <manoloudis4linux>
Component:	Wiki	Assignee:	Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	behlert, suse-beta
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Ioannis Manoloudis 2005-12-12 17:27:35 UTC

Hi
In the good old times of SuSE there was a section in hardware support which was stating which hardware was compatble with SuSE Linux.
That database (version 3.0) wasn't updated ever since the days of SuSE 8.x
I think that we should include such a database in the wiki.
It should be updated with the newest hardware. SuSE users will be able to consult it before buying hardware.
This database should have good information retrieval features.
For example one may need to get the support status of all sound cards, for SuSE 10.0, for x86_64 architecture. 
Registered users will be able to file support details in this database and also cast votes so that we can have a way to figure out for how many users does a particular piece of hardware work. Eg The printer HP 5150 works for 54 users with SuSE 10.0
Finally I believe that this database will function as "consumer power" to make hardware vendors be more Linux friendly.
Ioannis

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-12-12 17:42:47 UTC

Actually there is something planned here. Stefan: Please comment on this.

Comment 2 Stefan Behlert 2005-12-14 06:57:45 UTC

I fully agree. Unfortunately it still takes time, and we won't see anything like that until next year :( - designing something usable and implementing it simply takes more time than currently available. And having something that does fit the need is more important than a fast solution that doesn't help anyone because of its unusability.

Comment 3 Stefan Behlert 2006-05-08 10:29:32 UTC

A short update: a first draft for the design of such a database is finished. It's way pre-alpha, but I will release it soon for general discussion.

Comment 6 Adrian Schröter 2008-06-03 07:49:29 UTC

We have decided to use smolts.org from openSUSE 11.1 on. 11.0 does already contains the client, but needs manual start.