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On this forum you can submit full-featured reviews of your Linux-powered hardware with the help of automated reviews in the Linux Hardware Database.

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About the Hardware Database

The Linux Hardware Database at Linux-Hardware.org is the largest (Linux) database of hardware with 200.000+ configurations collected since 2014.

The database is grown by Linux users from all over the world with the help of hw-probe client application and dumped to our repositories on GitHub.

Newest laptop of the day with Linux:

DIGMA Pro Fortis M DN15R5-ADXW07

HW: AMD Ryzen 5 7430U with Radeon Graphics, AMD graphics, memory module(s) 16GB, one drive (MAXIO Technology (Hangzhou) Ltd. NVMe SSD Controller MAP1202 512GB), 15.0-inch display.

Kernel: 6.12.34-6.12-alt1

PROBE ID

Newest desktop of the day with Linux:

Lenovo 333E (IdeaCentre Mini 01IRH8 90W2002CRM)

HW: Intel 13th Gen Core i5-13500H, Intel graphics, memory module(s) 16GB, 2 drives (ADATA Technology Co., Ltd. LEGEND 710 1024GB, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd MZVL4512HBLU-00BL7 512GB).

Kernel: 6.12.37_1

PROBE ID

Biggest laptop of the day with Linux:

Eii Hampoo Reserved

HW: Intel Atom Processor E3950, Intel graphics, memory module(s) 6GB, 13.3-inch display and 46 more devices.

Kernel: 6.15.5-1-default

PROBE ID

Biggest desktop of the day with Linux:

ASRock Z690 AQUA OC

HW: Intel 13th Gen Core i5-13600KF, Nvidia graphics, 2 memory modules (2 x Crucial CP48G56C46U5.C16B 48GB), 5 drives (4 x Intel Corporation NVMe DC SSD [3DNAND, Sentinel Rock Controller] 4TB, Intel Corporation SSD 660P Series 1TB) and 59 more devices.

Kernel: 6.14.2-desktop-3omv2590

PROBE ID

Smallest laptop of the day with Linux:

Fujitsu LIFEBOOK P727

HW: Intel Core i5-7200U CPU, Intel graphics, one memory module (Samsung M471A1K43BB0-CPB 8GB), one drive (SAMSUNG MZNTY256HDHP-00000 256GB SSD), 12.5-inch display and 34 more devices.

Kernel: 6.14.2-desktop-3omv2590

PROBE ID

Oldest laptop of the day with Linux:

Sony VGN-BX397XP

HW: Intel Core 2 CPU T7200, AMD graphics, 2 memory modules (2 x RAM Module 1GB), 2 drives (2 x FUJITSU MHV2160BT 160GB).

Kernel: 6.8.0-63-generic

PROBE ID

Oldest desktop of the day with Linux:

TOSHIBA Personal Computer System TEM130NE by TOPS (FAB-e67)

HW: Intel Core i7-2600 CPU, AMD graphics, 4 memory modules (2 x Micron 8JTF25664AZ-1G4D1 2GB, Samsung M378B5773CH0-CK0 2GB, Samsung M378B5773DH0-CH9 2GB), 2 drives (BORY R500 240G SSD, China SSD 128GB).

Kernel: 6.14.2-desktop-3omv2590

PROBE ID

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Highlighting important SMART attributes in probes

We've started to highlight most important SMART attributes in computer probes, that correlate with real mechanical failures according to Google and Backblaze studies.

Green highlights the zero value of important attributes, red — any positive value ...

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List of devices with poor Linux-compatibility

A new project has been created to collect the list of computer hardware devices with poor Linux compatibility based on the Linux-Hardware.org data for 4 years.

There are about 26 thousands of depersonalized hwinfo reports in the repository from computers in various configurations (different kernels, OS — mostly ROSA Fresh). The device is included into the list of poorly supported devices if there is at least one user probe in which the driver for this device was not found. The column 'Missed' indicates the percentage of such probes. If number of such probes is small, it means that the driver was already added in newer versions of the OS. In this case we show minimal version of the Linux kernel in which the driver was present.

Devices are divided into categories. For each category we calculate the ratio of poorly supported devices to the total number of devices tested in this category.

At the moment, the study is limited only to PCI and USB devices. In the future, it is planned to include the rest.

Please check the presence of known unsupported devices in the table. The device ID can be taken from the output of the 'lspci -vvnn' command in square brackets, for example [1002:9851].

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Real-life reliability test for hard drives

A new open project has been created to estimate reliability of hard drives (HDD/SSD) in real-life conditions based on the SMART data collected in the Linux-Hardware.org database. The initial data (SMART reports), analysis methods and results are publicly shared in a new GitHub repository. Everyone can contribute to the report by uploading probes of their computers by the hw-probe tool!

The primary aim of the project is to find drives with longest "power on hours" and minimal number of errors. We use the following formula as a measure of reliability: Power_On_Hours / (1 + Number_Of_Errors), i.e. time to the first error/between errors.

Please be careful when reading the results table. Pay attention not only to the rating, but also to the number of checked model samples. If rating is low, then look at the number of power-on days and number of errors occurred. New drive models will appear at the end of the rating and will move to the top in the case of long error-free operation.

You can, as before, create a probe of your computer via the application in SimpleWelcome menu or from the console by a simple command:

  hw-probe -all -upload

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