From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 06:34:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD9237B401 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 06:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC3243F93 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 06:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h49DYf56099975; Fri, 9 May 2003 08:34:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3EBBAE5C.9000402@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 08:34:20 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attila Nagy References: <3EBB9306.4050509@fsn.hu> <20030509120544.GA70936@perrin.int.nxad.com> <3EBB9FF1.8070202@fsn.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Working hardware page proposal X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 13:34:43 -0000 Attila Nagy wrote: > Hiten Pandya wrote: > >> Err, doesn't Hardware Notes cut it? > > It's OK, but too general. > Today, if you want to make sure that a motherboard will work, you must > ask it on a mailing list, or search the archives. > > I see that this is a big task, but maybe Gregor could take over it :) I've thought we needed something like this before, when seeing the linux hardware database. I'm not certain if it should be on the freebsd.org site (I would like it to be, so more people would find it, use it, and trust it), but I'd be willing to run it, host it, and write the software for it if I could get a few volunteers to help put data in. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------