Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:06:37 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list) Message-ID: <20030315160636.O67648@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3E72A716.4070607@mac.com>; from paulbeard@mac.com on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:07:50PM -0800 References: <3E72A716.4070607@mac.com>
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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 -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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