[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI/Illumos HCL

[Dave Koelmeyer]

+1 to this.

Cheers,
Dave

MATTHEW WILBY <matthewwilby at btinternet.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I know it's early days, but what's the possibility of getting an HCL (Hardware 
>Compatibility List) page setup on the OI website? This would give community 
>members a chance to provide information on what works and what does not, and 
>perhaps share experiences on how to fix/tune certain components specific to that 
>hardware.
>
>With Openindianna moving away from the original Opensolaris code base sooner or 
>later the original HCL will start to become out of date. While I don't expect OI 
>to maintain a list of 'certified hardware' (yet) if the distribution is going to 
>penetrate production environments such a site would prove useful, rather than 
>the suck it and see approach at the moment. Might also take some of the load off 
>the bug submission etc.
>
>For information, Opensolaris has been removed from the main Sun/Oracle HCLpage 
>(http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) but is still accessiblehere 
>(http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/).
>
>Just a thought.....
>
>Happy new year.
>
>Matt
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