[lugm.org] the importance of hardware documentation

[Loganaden Velvindron]

Hi,

I think it's an excellent idea :-)
http://lugm.org/2012/01/25/recommended-hardware/

Is it ok if I host it on lugm.org ?

It's still a Work-In-Progress. Suggestions welcomed.


Nishal summarized it well ! The lack of documentation
hurts developer motivation terribly. One senior openbsd developer
is reluctant to support newer SiS chipsets as it's very hard 

to track down the bugs.
(See his commit message: 

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=132664077412198&w=2
``As pointed out by Chris Cappuccio we need to expand
this list to cover 

newer chips SiS have inflicted on the world.'')
Another OpenBSD developer gave up running on i386, and moved a production
ntp server to the Vax ! The latter has more complete documentation and is better supported.



________________________________
 From: Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org>
To: LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss at lugm.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 22:55
Subject: Re: [lugm.org] the importance of hardware documentation
 

i suspect some people find objection to logan's postings because they don't feel his frustrations.
i don't (share his frustrations);  but i don't find them boring either.
though, maybe his writing style could change a little  ;-)

"vote with your waller" is one of my favourite phrases;  knowing which vendors don't want to release information about their products helps me shape my purchasing decisions.  
there may even be others that think the same way.  

if it's annoying to see this discussion on this mailing list, how about putting up an online resource so logan (and his dev-friends) can point us lesser mortals to a vendor-avoid list ?

and, thanks logan,
--n.
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