Online Repository for Hardware Configurations?

Great_Jehovah asks: "I've done a lot of trial-and-error and spent time researching getting various devices (e.g. motherboards, USB devices, DVD burners) working on Linux. I've also spent a bunch of time configuring different pieces of software for particular applications. I would like a nice centralized place to share these pieces of knowledge and also to see what others have done. I've looked on Google but either I can't conjure the right keywords, or this place just doesn't exist yet. Anyone know where such a site exists? If not, I'll start one."

Comments

Re:they sort of exist

[RiverTonic]

I think it is this site. It has a fast search engine so it's only a matter of seconds to check if something is supported.

Just Linux Hardware

[skreuzer]

take a look at Just Linux Hardware While it is fairly new, it is growing into quite a resource.
Plus, the revenue the site generates gets donated to open source projects and orginizations, which is also pretty cool

Re:Right here..

[Asprin]

No, no, no. This is a GREAT idea - think about it like "C Code Snippets" for Linux configuration files. Here are a few examples:

Case #1
I need a config file for Samba to emulate an NT4 PDC. I download the prewritten boilerplate config file, change the domain name, put it in /etc, restart Samba and I'm in business.

Case #2
Or how about a config file for Sendmail that uses Spam Assassin for spam filtering and renattach for viruses.

Case #3
I want to turn my old 386 into a Linksys-style NAT box. The only imbound port I need mapped is my web server (port 80). You got config files for that?

Case #4
Shared email address books with LDAP. I want to run an LDAP server with slapd to provide shared email address books, but I don't want to use LDAP for any sort of network authentication. I just want users to be able to create folders and contacts and move the contacts around in the folders (and add, change, delete and update them, of course.) Apparently, I'm the only person that ever thought of doing this because I haven't found ANY docs anywhere that describe this sort of thing.

Your target audience here is beginners and administrators who are migrating to Linux services who want to get things working without having to read and decode **ALL** of the documentation up front.

Let's face it, with if you take any given piece of software,there really are only a few different basic configs most people want to start out with, and once you get basic functionality in place, you can tweak to customize from there. Hey, they did it with sendmail, right?