[Cooker] Mandriva HCL testing

[Romain d'Alverny|Mandriva]

Hi everyone,

we are almost done with a first public release of the HCL website.

What is it for? We expect it to serve as a report/lookup database for  
people to spot hardware that runs (Mandriva for now) Linux, and get  
it. So its main purpose is not being a full featured thing for geeks,  
although that still may be considered as an option.

Although it's not ironed out yet, neither complete, and that we are  
going to keep on improving bits in the next weeks, new, fresh eyes  
are welcome already at this point.

So if you have time, please have a look on it through http:// 
hcl.mandriva.com/session/beta (going directly on http:// 
hcl.mandriva.com won't let your enter the app otherwise).

 * for help, doc, please use this wiki page : http:// 
wiki.mandriva.com/en/Hardware_Compatibility_List - it is still very  
short, does not explain so much, I guess we will do it along comments;
 * for feature suggestion, please use this very wiki page for now;
 * for bug reports, please use the Bugzilla (http:// 
qa.mandriva.com), "Mandriva web site" product, "hcl" component.

You will not see that many interesting reports at first. One goal of  
this review precisely is: you check if you have hosts registered  
already, and then you do comment/rank them.

The key questions afterwise are: is it useful? is it simple to  
understand/use? what can be scratched out already? what is missing?

Special thanks to our trainees Keerthan, Quentin and Hamid for having  
helped/helping a lot on this. And thanks to you for your feedback!

From Paris with love.

romain.