Smolt is a computer software that gathers hardware information from computers running Linux, and submits them to a central server for statistical purposes, quality assurance and support. It was initiated by Fedora,[1] with the release of Fedora 7,[2] and is now a combined effort of various Linux projects. Information collection is voluntary (opt-in) and anonymous.[3] Smolt does not run automatically. It requests permission before uploading new data to the Smolt server.
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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:
Currently you can use Smolt on:
The smolt server, at http://www.smolts.org/, stores all collected data.