General Information
- Cooker is now in FREEZE mode to prepare 2007.1 release candidate according to this schedule.
- see the inside man VI by Fabrice Facorat (damn he made it too fast !)
enhancing hardware support
- it all began with Adam Williamson hacking video cards detection and rationalizing ldetect-lst for nVidia and ATI. ldetect-lst is the Big List Of Recognised Hardware.
- then a discussion about Dell including Linux in their installation led to discussion about a hardware team to enhance pci.ids management in management, relying on upstream work which can benefit all distrbutions.
- this is no easy task as some (hum, well, proprietary) drivers drop "old" hardware support as shown with latest nvidia-97xx (Geforce 3 & 4 are only supported with nvidia-96xx).
- kernel 2.6.17.11mdv already includes many backports that were suggested, I'm most happy with uvcvideo being included for my webcam on my HP 9000dv laptop.
addition of packages
- Lenny asked for packages in contrib that could be included in PWP+
- Pierre Jarillon suggested to add many graphics programs listed by Andre Pascual (from linuxgraphics) among which Xara LX, Ayam 3D, Wings 3D, Graphite One (in plf ? missing source code :/), GCad3D (hum, freeware, no source code found :/): CAD packages would be a plus in the distribution