On 1/8/07, Horst H. von Brand vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl wrote:
Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/8/07, dragoran drago01@gmail.com wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 1/4/07, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
And, what would a release be without features. We've identified 28 features that we'd like to include in the release, available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Features:
Two more things:
- Is there any plan to have some sort of Fedora recommends hardware
of manufacturer X,Y,Z? I'm not thinking of hardware certification, just recommendations. I think this would be very beneficial.
we should create some sort of hw db where people can check which hw is supported by fedora and which not
That's great. I don't even ask for the word 'support' to be used, I would be happy with:
- works with clean fedora (no binary blob drivers or firmware required)
- works with non fedora worthy firmware
- works in Linux, but not Fedora ready (or clean enough)
- no idea
- doesn't work
Who would compile and keep this up to date? Have you any idea of how many brands and models of different pieces are around?
The community would. For example:
1) I install F7 2) My tv card works immediately without any additional drivers 3) I pull the card info from available sources 4) I add it to the db if it isn't already there
The process would just need to have to peer review/dispute
Another exmaple:
1) I instal FC6 2) I try a sound interface card (Echo Gina 24) 3) I realise the drivers are in the FC6 kernel (gina24.ko) 4) I realise that I need firmware not availabe in the official fedora repos to get the device to work with alsa 5) I gather the info on the card (including the fac that it is a discontinued model) 6) I add it to the db if it isn't ther
All I'm asking for a Fedora blessed infrastructure to be put in place, not for any one person to be responsible for populating it
The benefit of this being that next time I'm buying hardware, I can scurry over to the db and check what the best options are.