[email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:34:54 +1100, Marek Wawrzyczny said:
[...]
> > Perhaps we just report on the individual devices then... forget the system
> > rating.
> OK, *that* I see as potentially useful - I frequently get handed older
> boxen with strange gear
== gear for which there is probably no documentation at all
> in them, and need a way to figure out if I want to
> install software,
LiveCD of your choice...
> or cannibalize it for parts. Also helpful if a buddy has
> a Frankintel box they build, and they want to know if they can install
> something other than Windows....
Same as above.
> Bonus points if it sees a card that has a known out-of-tree driver and
> tells you where to find it and what its license status is (I just went
> down that road with an Intel 3945)...
If in-tree driver is already a challange, out-of-tree is hopeless.
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