On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:17:58PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > I am interested in this information as well. A list of recommended
> > products wold be great or something to that effect.
>
> A list of recommended products may help you, but would not help the
> user list at large. They will continue to accidentally buy the wrong
> hardware from the wrong vendors. It would be a tremendous burden on
> us to keep such a list up-to-date. I'm sorry. At least I am saying
> that I personally will not be involved in maintaining such a list.
Plus: sites like vendorwatch may appear to be helpful but will be
f*ck*d as soon as a vendor changes chips without also changing the
product version number (which happens very often).
Maintaining a list of recommended hardware would need active support
by the hardware vendors, not by users. But some vendors (like Intel)
aren't interested -- they merely abuse the open source hype for
marketing.
I think it's important that all vendors *understand* our needs.
Compatibility lists won't help here.
Ciao,
Kili
