Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Andrew Wafaa <awafaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:11 -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I hope you've sent your hardware profile via smolt. I'm pretty sure the
> > numbers there are the one people will look at when thinking about where to 
> > put
> > the optimization efforts:
> >
> > http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html
>
> Not sure what I'm supposed to do with that site.  And, the stats are
> way off.  19% running 11.1 and 0 running 11.0/i586????  Seems like a
> lot of people have no idea either.  It looks like a Fedora specific
> site anyway.

You're supposed to use the site to see how many registered installs
there are, what hardware is being used, etc.  As a user you can submit
your hardware profile and actually add comments/tip/tricks/etc to the
hardware and also mark items as working with no issue, working with a
bit of magic or just not working [0].

There will be a huge difference between 11.0 and 11.1 as openSUSE had
only begun talks with Fedora about joining in and helping out after
11.0's release.  Yes this is a project that was started by Fedora, but
we (the openSUSE project) can see the benefit in it and are happy and
willing to join in.

There have been multiple posts since last summer about Smolts [0], [1],
[2] and as with everything it takes time and effort to get the word
spread about something good, unfortunately bad things tend to be known
much much faster :-/  A good way to follow what's going on is to keep an
eye on PlanetSUSE, most interesting items pop up there ;-)

[0] =
http://www.wafaa.eu/index.php?/archives/153-Smolt-your-Hardware.html
[1] = http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/12/11/dont-forget-to-smolt/
[2] =
http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/12/22/reminder-to-smolt-we-want-your-hardware-profiles/
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