Recommended Hardware project propoal [was The most recent meeting]

[Madison Kelly]

If I can toot my own horn for a moment; tracking best-of-breed hardware
is what I do for a living. I am not the cheapest and I will admit that
right up front but I am really pretty good at picking out uber-reliable
components and verifying linux-compatibility. I am working on
integrating what I know into a website which, once it is up, will
hopefully be something you guys and gals could reference even if you buy
it somewhere else. (I am not a retail store so I wouldn't mind helping
out by e-mail even if you have plans to grab stuff elsewhere - I aim
mostly at hardware and machines for companies). 

Seeing how I can't program to save my life it might be a way I could
give back to the community rather than normally leaching info like I
normally do ;).

Madison

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:57, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Which boards/companies are these?  Sounds like these boards/companies are
> > linux-friendly and should be remembered when we're asked to give hardware
> > purchase recommondations.
> > 
> > I'm interested in developing a short list of recommendable systems/parts
> > for various usage types.
> 
> The unfortunate problem with this is that there is _heavy_ churn of
> these products.  The motherboard that you really liked last month is
> liable to get replaced by a newer model in 3 months thereby making the
> information obsolete.
> 
> The approach that would be more likely to be worthwhile would be to go
> "global" on building a compatibility database, so that MANY people could
> be involved in figuring out which parts work well, and then have a
> "regional availability" table that allows people in different regions
> create 'views' indicating what hardware is available locally.
> Regrettably, that latter part goes stale quickly.
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