[UCLA-LUG] hardware compatability lists (HCL)

[Glenn Micah Glazer]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Erik Hovland wrote:

> > That's a f**kload of work.  Better to just point to
> >   http://www.redhat.com/hardware

Tsk.  Such language coming from a professional in the field.

> > 
> > A few anecdotal reports might be welcome, though, e.g.
> >   "Works great on the 300MHz Celeron eMachines I bought this Christmas".


> 
> I agree with Dan. A lot of work. You could just list pointers to other
> resources like: http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html
> or http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html

I think that some combination of pointers and comments would be good.  You
could also start a subsection of the archives so that people can more
quickly see what has already been commented on.  The point is that we are
taking the piecemeal approach to an HCL and if we organized this
information, it would be a tremendous resource (if only so that the same
questions don't keep hitting the list).

Best,

Glenn