General
Before Smolt there was no widely accepted system for assembling Linux statistics in one place. Smolt is 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 Linux
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