AMD 780G chipset major issues 3/3 (btx)
Justin Hibbits
jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu
Tue Apr 7 08:15:49 PDT 2009
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:59:17AM -0400, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> Some Linux distributions are requesting permission after an install to send
> a hardware profile to their official site .
>
> By collecting and using such profile values a data base may be constructed
> by FreeBSD .
>
> By studying that data base FreeBSD users may get information about next
> hardware selections .
>
> When an installation detects a problem about a hardware part it may also
> be sent to that data base to evaluate to its reasons .
>
> Hardware manufacturers may check that data base for possible utilization
> of data for their next product designs .
>
> That data base may be an incentive to hardware producers to support FreeBSD
> and be known by FreeBSD users .
>
> Thank you very much .
>
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
Look at sysutils/bsdstats.
- Justin
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