On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 14:34 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> We've had something of this kind many years go. It was called smolt and >> had proven to be worthless and the origin of heated controversials. > > smolt did hardware stats, not software. It "proved to be useless" > merely because it was badly implemented and then not fixed; had it been > good, it would have been very useful indeed. And it was controversial > because you can't wipe your nose on fedora-devel without someone > accusing you of a conspiracy to destroy Linux. The replacement for it, called Census, looked much more promising and was all plugin capable and API-y and good stuff. It would have been an improvement over smolt simply for the fact that PCI IDs were shown in hex and not decimal. I've not heard about it in a very long time though. Not since Flock 2013. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
