on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:07AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > >Terry writes: > > > > > >>Now, if you are just doing this "in good faith" or making a "best > >>effort", you're asking for a lawsuit the first time somebody buys your > >>stuff and can't get the "backalley joe" Linux distro version 0.0.2 to > >>work with it. Either that, or you're just going to be giving people > >>their money-back an awful lot. > >> > >> > > > >So you guarantee that it works with a specific version of a specific > >distribution. And ship it with that version installed and running. > > > > > Or to make it even simpler: > "Designed for Knoppix 3.3 11-02-2003" > and include that Knoppix CD without an OS installed. That'd be good > enough guarantee for me.
I've recommended this (strongly) in the past. It would be nice to see HW vendors pick up on this. It would also be helpful if a HW regression test fram for various peripherals could be created, automated to the extent possible. There's some work toward this (lshw, hdparm, my own system-info script, etc.), anyone care to mention subsystems and possible tests? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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