On 10/07/2015 05:58 AM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone: Who is keeping the Hardware Compatibility List for Fedora? Someone's been falling down on the job. That HCL hasn't seen an update in five years. In that interval, the hardware makers have introduced "two-in-ones," laptops with screens that respond to touch as swiftly as a tablet does. And I can't even find, /anywhere,/ any insight as to whether Fedora will even run on a two-in-one. Even if I decide not to go for a two-in-one just now: I found a good deal on a modern Acer Aspire E machine. I look up the HCL. The most recent article on any Acer model goes back to Fedora 11. And here we are at Fedora 22! Why has the community neglected the HCL? Or are we now supposed to be 100 percent confident Fedora will run on absolutely any platform out there? Without having to use proprietary drivers? (I refer here to the never-ending NVidia GeForce problem.)
Uhm, it's probably fallen behind as it's one hell of a lot of work to maintain. If you feel strongly about it, then perhaps you could locate the original or current maintainer and either complain loudly to them or offer to take it over yourself. Judging from what it takes to get various kernels and drivers karma and such on hardware over on the developer's list, I think you'll find maintaining the HCL pretty daunting as well. I agree it would be nice, but since a huge portion of Linux is community-based, you have to find the volunteers willing to do the work. That often isn't easy. You know, life happens. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - If it's stupid and it works...it ain't stupid! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
