[openbeos] Re: device database

Haha, you can't be serious Ryan...

I think we must think alike, and even more so if you bought the same system
that I did today.

The Dimension C521 (very good deal).

Karl





On 6/19/07, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/19/07, Karl vom Dorff <karl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry to bug about this again, but has anyone here seen Ubuntu's
> Device
> > Database!?
> >
> > If you download a Kubuntu LiveCD, it's under KDE Menu/System/Kubuntu
> Device
> > Database.
>
> There is also a GNOME version which comes with Ubuntu, and I just ran
> it here at work (I've been running Ubuntu for a few months now.)
>
> > Seems to be a great little tool. It actually tests your hardware. Like
> for
> > the sound card, it plays a sound, asks the user if they heard it, and
> a
> > field to add comments, then the network card actually performs a ping
> > operation, tests a number of devices, and at the end asks if they'd
> like to
> > add any comments. Before it uploads it to their database where it
> gives a
> > link for viewing. Now, I don't know about the end part, if the website
> is
> > fully functional, don't think so. But anyways, seems like a very good
> app..
>
> Yes I agree, it is a nice tool. Personally I think Ubuntu has done a
> lot of things right, and frankly it is what brought me back to the
> Linux desktop after a long hiatus.
>
> In fact I just ordered a Dell desktop with Ubuntu on it, partly
> because it was a good deal, partly because I want a Core 2 Duo to test
> with Haiku, but also because I want to show support for Dell selling
> Ubuntu. Having hardware that is guaranteed to work with Ubuntu is nice
> too (though I haven't seen much that isn't supported yet...even my
> ThinkPad laptop ran the LiveCD great.)
>
> Anyhow until Haiku R1, Ubuntu will make a nice non-Microsoft option
> for myself. I refuse to touch Vista.
>
> Of course there are various things about the Linux desktop that cause
> me to continue supporting and developing Haiku, so I won't let Ubuntu
> tempt me away from Haiku completely ;)
>
> But still, Haiku can learn a lot from Ubuntu.
>
> Ryan
>
>

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