Smolt was a

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used to gather hardware information from computers running

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, and submit them to a central server for statistical purposes, quality assurance and support. It was initiated by

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, with the release of Fedora 7, and soon after it was a combined effort of various

projects. Information collection was voluntary (opt-in) and anonymous. Smolt did not run automatically. It requested permission before uploading new data to the Smolt server. On October 10, 2012, it was announced that smolt would be discontinued on November 1, 2013. That is now in effect. The Smolt webpage is no longer available. The project is superseded by Hardware probe.

General

Before Smolt there was no widely accepted system for assembling Linux statistics in one place. Smolt was not the first nor the only attempt, but it is the first accepted by major Linux distributions. Collecting this kind of data across distributions can: * aid developers in detecting hardware that is poorly supported * focus efforts on popular hardware * provide workaround and fix tips * help users to choose the best distribution for their hardware * convince hardware vendors to support

Use

Smolt was included in: *

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, releases from 11.1 to 12.2; *

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and

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see https://web.archive.org/web/20090109010205/http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/ (retired link) * Gentoo see https://web.archive.org/web/20090207100254/http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-admin/smolt *

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see http://smolt.mythtv.org/

Smolt server

The Smolt server stored all collected data.

References

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External links

Smolt wiki

Smolt retirement

openSUSE about Smolt
Linux Discontinued software Internet properties disestablished in 2013

General

Use

Smolt server

See also

References

External links