ABOUT
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Hcl is a tool for gathering hardware information on the user machine.
Hcl uses at 100% open source tools, like : dmidecode, lspci, hwreport (from Frédéric Lepied; www.hardware4linux.info) etc.

GOALS
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The main goals of the projects are :
1/centralizing hardware information.
2/giving feedbacks on hardware support whatever the Linux distribution (could be Mandriva, Fedora, Ubuntu, Novell Suse etc.).
3/showing what kind of device or platform is most used in order to convince hardware manufacturers to give to the community driver.

INSTALLATION
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The hcl application is automatically installed by the system. So it doesn't require any specific handlings from user.

OPERATIONS:
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hcl has two parts :

-first part will be enabled at the first step, asking to user his agreement to upload his hardware configuation.
-second part gives to user to lauch the tool from MCC (Mandriva Control Center). All the process, collecting, uploading are
automated and userfriendly.

BUGS:
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Please report bugs on mandriva bugzilla : http://qa.mandriva.com, all the bugs are welcome.
