Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list)

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:07:50PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> I had talked with Giorgos Keramidas of the FreeBSD team some 
> months back about working up some more documentation for mobile 
> FreeBSD use. Sadly, real life has intruded, as it often does, and 
> I've made very little progress.
> 
> My idea was simply to use http-upload to take kernel and Xfree86 
> configs for a given model and let that serve as reference material 
> for anyone who comes across a given model and wants to get started 
> using it. From that, one could infer some compatibility info about 
>   video chipsets, device controllers, et al, but knowing that a 
> given set of config files were known to work on a given machine is 
> a good start.
> 
> With each upload, there would be an option to add comments about 
> the particular hardware, what worked and what didn't, but given 
> that most FreeBSD users are pretty self-sufficient and we have 
> these excellent mailing lists, the config files would work in most 
> cases.
> 
> Would that be useful as a first step? I have my config files 
> posted on my personal site and they'll been accessed a few times: 
> that seems encouraging to me.

In case anyone's interested, this is the sort of thing that TWiki
does well using only perl.
http://www.twiki.org
People can edit a web page, add comments, and upload a file to
attach to a page. It even works with lynx. All changes get
stored under RCS. For an example of it being put to work:
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EditTablePluginDev
and of course
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/FreeBSD


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Regards,
        -*Sue*-

 
 

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