LXer: The Sorry State of Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) in Linux
 

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Have you looked at the HCL (Hardware Compatibly List) for your preferred Linux distribution lately? Do you see it? Exactly, it's a mess. Even with a strong community effort working to keep the list updated and as fresh as possible, it's nearly impossible to make the list worth the page it's rendered on. Today, I'm going to be exploring one idea I have for making this a lot simpler and more effective. Rather than tasking hundreds to thousands of people into making this a reality, why not take a page from the bug reporting side of things?

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Not a bad idea - similar to the popularity project on Debian and Ubuntu. Except when do we submit that it works on the hardware?