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Jacques Le Marois writes: Lothar is a new open source project which aims to facilitate hardware detection under Linux. The purpose of the Lothar project is to make hardware configuration easier in Linux, by providing hardware detection, and a nice graphical interface. It actually allows Ethernet and Sound Card configuration. The Many Linux users often complain about the trouble they go through when trying to configure hardware under Linux. At MandrakeSoft, we think that this is not acceptable anymore, we have already started to make Linux easier for the beginner with Linux-Mandrake, and will go further in this direction with the next release. But we also think that it is now time that Linux-users have the ability to use their PC-hardware easily, without having to edit several configuration files. With Lothar, all your Ethernet, SCSI or Sound Cards are automatically detected and set with the correct parameters. According to Abdulmajid Sharif, one of the main supporter of the project, "one of the big advantage of Windows 95/98 was the Plug-n-play capability. Lothar brings some of that ease of use to Linux." Lothar has been initiated and is supported by the Linux-Mandrake team. A lot of work has already been done. The Soundconfig module is very usable right now. Lothar is an open-source project published under GPL (GNU General Public License). It is opened to the Linux community. Anyone can contribute to this big project especially programmers, graphical designers, testers, packagers, maintainers and translators. If you wish to join the project, just have a look at the Lothar project page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar  
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