From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751173AbVLIQEu (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:04:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751267AbVLIQEu (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:04:50 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49595 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751173AbVLIQEt (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:04:49 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Dirk Steuwer Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <35082.192.54.193.25.1134037636.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 213.61.178.52 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Some people have proposed a wiki. A wiki is good but that's an > half-measure. Do it the full way - choose one of the FOSS ecommerce > stacks, replace the its comparison parameters by things we care about, > feed the underlying DB and just watch as people buy based on your > notation. > > People do not follow the recommendations of every review web site because > they trust them. They follow the recommendations because it's the ones > easiest to get, and they don't want to bother with official (but difficult > to reach) sources. > > Regards, > And for feeding the DB, could this be an extended KLive approach which gathers device ID, querys the database for ho many versions there really are under this id :-) and asks some questions: * are you happy with performance of 1234:5678 Graphics Adapter xyz? * is said adapter of type OEM, Original, ... * is feature f working? * how about feature l? * kernel version * an so on How about getting hardware review people on board? They do good testing and recieve a link back to their site? Dirk