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Non-developers can have access to the Wiki. I don't know why people think it's developers only. :) Adrian On 14 July 2011 17:22, Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Rick Macklem wrote: > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > On Jul 13, 2011 7:31 AM, "Zoran Kolic" <zko...@sbb.rs> wrote: > > > > > > > > > There is this list for laptops: > > > > > http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ > > > > > > > > Been there. Seen that. Obsolete. > > > > My very idea would be to have recent models in some kind > > > > of wiki. I believe that at least hundred guys on the list > > > > could post quality articles on the subject regarding lap- > > > > tops they regurarly use. > > > > > > > > > See the recent thread on the freebsd-mobile list with subject > > > > > "Laptop recommendations?" > > > > > > > > Mostly older stuff recommended. Hard to find or I dislike > > > > what I see on the review for particular model. > > > > Thank you for answering my question. > > > > > > > > Zoran > > > > > > I agree that a wiki would be ideal, but it would require active > > > management. > > > That's the real issue. > > > > > > It's also the reason wiki.FreeBSD.org would not be practical. I might > > > be > > > able to admin such a wiki, but I have no place to put it. But I'm > > > retired, > > > so I should have time. > > > > > I recently installed Fedora15 and I thought it had a fairly clever > > idea in it. At the end of the install (so presumably it had worked for > > the hardware), it asked you if you wanted to email your hardware config > > to them. > > I recall one Debian install doing something similar. People seem to be > forgetting about bsdstats (port sysutils/bsdstats, http://bsdstats.org/) > which attempts to do something similar though it focuses more on FreeBSD > versions, hardware lists via pciconf and optionally ports lists, posting > stats monthly and anonymously .. a plus for security but perhaps a minus > for being able to seek information from people having certain hardware. > > As seen at bsdstats.org, the very much greater number of PC-BSD systems > reporting reflects the fact that PC-BSD installs bsdstats as a matter of > course; clearly the voluntary approach is far less effective, and people > don't know that bsdstats reveals no personally identifying information > until they've looked it over; many likely don't even know it exists. > > Zoran's comments that http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ is 'obsolete' > are a bit misplaced regarding older kit that some of us use by choice or > necessity (eg my 2.5 Thinkpad T23s :) but that site did get swamped with > spam for ages, not all of which has been removed, and there's no way to > group posts describing the same models in slightly different terms. > > Hard to get past the notion that someone needs to actively work on it, > yet it needs to be largely self-maintained by its users independent of > anyone's ongoing enthusiasm; difficult, perhaps contradictory criteria? > > > Something that just captured such emails and put them in a list (especially > > if could catch duplicates) for people to look at might be nice. The list > > would get long (and not really indicate how well the hardware worked), but > > at least it would be up-to-date and not require manual maintenance. > > It could only be up to date initially, and just grow from there .. one > advantage of the bsdstats approach is that only systems that continue > reporting in monthly continue being reported. One could argue about the > various ways that database information is presented, but any skillful > database programmer could do quite a lot with such anonymised data, > particularly if there were some identification of hardware make/model, > though that's not available in the environment of reporting programs. > > > I'm not volunteering to do this;-) although I'm retired too, but it might > > be a useful thing to have? rick > > Me neither, me too, and yes indeed. Just a few pent-up thoughts .. > > cheers, Ian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
