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-<box 100% | Hardware Database>
+<box 100% | **The Hardware Database**>
-Welcome to the Linux Audio Hardware Database.
+Welcome to the Linux Audio Hardware Database. \\
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+Here we seek to address one of the common concerns of all Linux musicians - what hardware to get, how well will X device be supported, if there are any device specific procedures to install, and if so, what they may be - without having those involved run from pillar to post to obtain this information. \\
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+As one may guess, it is certainly no small undertaking - do bear with us as we put this together for everyone's benefit. And, if you wish, contribute to it in any way you like.
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-Here we seek to address one of the common concerns of all Linux musicians - what hardware to get, how well will X device be supported, if there are any device specific procedures to install, and if so, what they may be - without having those involved run from pillar to post to obtain this information.
+<box 43% left | **Current Entries**>
+{{indexmenu>:hw}}
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-As one may guess, it is certainly no small undertaking - do bear with us as we put this together for everyone's benefit.
+<box 50% right| **Linux Support Rating**>
+To have a quantifiable, definitive way to know how well a device is supported, we have the Linux Support Rating, wherein a rating of \\
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+    * 5 means a device is fully functional out of the box
+    * 4 means a device is fully functional with some configuration changes and/or requires some supplementary libre software, which runs natively or on WINE.
+    * 3 means a device is fully functional with some configuration changes and/or requires some supplementary proprietary software, which runs natively or with WINE
+    * 2 means a device is partially functional, some features will not work
+    * 1 means a device is completely unusable/confirmed unsupported
+    * 0 means a device's support status is unknown
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