This project's purpose is to provide a Libre Hardware Database. This base will make it possible to any user of free os like Linux or *BSD to know how his material will work with this systems.

A "simple" use-case could be:

• a tool like lshw http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter see screenshot
• coupled to feedback of good compatibility made at http://hardware4linux.info see for this laptop
• a database extraction giving what works/fails with a driver free/or not, which would permit to get an idea rapidly (even without internet connectivity, which is not a given in a store...).

Then, it remains to make a checking live-CD including appropriate tools (with an up-to-date file that can be put on an usb-key) and it simply works...

Available documentation

For the moment being, see

• http://wiki.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=GnuHwDb
• http://wiki.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=ProjectSubmissionAtGnaLibreHwDb

How to contribute to the project

• subscribe to
  • this wiki : you'll get it in your language and can add pages
  • development mailing-list : https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/librehwdb-dev/

• see Project Resources

• see Last changes for latest evolutions of project's wiki

Licensing

• see License Choice for licensing of this wiki and works around librehwdb