Feature changed by: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) Feature #311661, revision 2 Title: provide a LiveCD/USB image to crowd-source a HCL openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: SUSE manually maintained a Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) but this has disadvantages: - it covers a limited range of hardware - parts of it can be outdated or inaccurate - it is a lot of effort to maintain On the other hand, people want an easy way to know if their hardware works with the current or next release of openSUSE. This is why a Live image is proposed that can easily be put to CD or USB-mass-storage and has an easy way (e.g. icon on desktop) to test access to different types of hardware: - graphics - sound - network - input ... This software could then upload the test results to a public online database in anonymous form. This DB could be the smolt DB or something similar in spirit. + Discussion: + #1: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) (2011-03-14 20:54:08) + I love too much all sort of tests we can add. And using smolt (when + this one doesn't need hal anymore) could be cool, as we can find OS by + our own release name. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311661