Linux Hardware Database

Re:Linux Hardware Database by freedomben on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:01AM (#31015479)

If you're in the market for a Linux computer, this is a great resource for making sure your hardware is compatible.

If you're already running Linux, this is a super easy way to contribute info about the hardware you have to help others [1]. For many distros it's already in the repos. For example Fedora:

    sudo dnf install -y hw-probe

Run the hardware probe/report and store it locally in `/root/HW_PROBE/LATEST/hw.info/` (no upload)

    sudo -E hw-probe -all

Run the hardware probe/report and upload it (uses privacy preserving techniques)[2]:

    sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload

[1]: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto

[2]: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto See section "Privacy"

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by remram on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:28PM (#31021585)

They do hash MAC addresses, but they upload your entire Dmesg log, list of network interfaces (including virtual; VPN, bridge, Docker, etc), list of kernel modules with their configuration, list of partitions with their filesystem and size, list of all systemd units (services, sockets, and timers), list of all packages installed (from APT, I use Ubuntu).

Maybe run this from a Live CD rather than your system.

Also note that hashing MAC addresses prevents someone from getting your MAC address by looking at your report, but does not prevent anyone from finding your report if they know your MAC addresses.

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by linuxbuild on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:57PM (#31147721)

> Also note that hashing MAC addresses prevents someone from getting your MAC address by looking at your report, but does not prevent anyone from finding your report if they know your MAC addresses

This is not true because it's hashed on the server side by secret salt.

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by aidenn0 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @02:49PM (#31018609)

TIL dnf has replaced yum, which replaced urpmi, which wrapped rpm.

I swear, every time I use a RPM based distro, there is a new package manager.

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @06:43PM (#31021228)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-3...

> While during these crazy times it feels like Fedora transitioned from Yum to DNF yesterday, it's already been a half-decade since the DNF package manager has been the default on Fedora. Next year with Fedora 38 they are looking at further evolving package management by way of MicroDNF.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MajorUpgradeOfMicrodn...

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by protomikron on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:46PM (#31020029)

To be fair, dnf replaced yum for quite some time now. However yum is still recognized as a command (but symlinks to dnf).

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by Georgelemental on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:05PM (#31020263)

DNF is itself being replaced: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MajorUpgradeOfMicrodn...

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by aidenn0 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:58PM (#31022624)

That probably explains why I didn't know about dnf; I only rarely use CentOS, so if using "yum" worked for basic things, then I wouldn't even have known it was calling dnf.

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by intsunny on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:59AM (#31024103)

urpmi was never developed nor adopted by Redhat/Fedora/etc.

urpmi was developed by Mandrake/Mandriva in a time where rpm had nothing similar to apt-get.

Also DNF replaced yum 7 years ago. This is hardly news.

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Re:Linux Hardware Database by buscoquadnary on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:09AM (#31015585)

Thanks for the advice, just uploaded stats on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine.

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