Smolt (Linux)
Smolt was a computer program used to gather hardware information from computers running Linux, and submit them to a central server for statistical purposes, quality assurance and support. It was initiated by Fedora, with the release of Fedora 7, and soon after it was a combined effort of various Linux projects. Information collection was voluntary (opt-in) and anonymous. Smolt did not run automatically. It requested permission before uploading new data to the Smolt server. On October 10, 2012, it was announced that smolt would be discontinued on November 1, 2013. That is now in effect. The Smolt webpage is no longer available.

The project is superseded by Hardware probe.

General
Before Smolt there was no widely accepted system for assembling Linux statistics in one place. Smolt was 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:
 aid developers in detecting hardware that is poorly supported
 focus efforts on popular hardware
 provide workaround and fix tips
 help users to choose the best distribution for their hardware
 convince hardware vendors to support Linux

Use 
Smolt was included in:
 Fedora
 openSUSE, releases from 11.1 to 12.2; 
 RHEL and CentOS see https://web.archive.org/web/20090109010205/http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/ (retired link)
 Gentoo see https://web.archive.org/web/20090207100254/http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-admin/smolt
 MythTV see http://smolt.mythtv.org/

Smolt server 
The Smolt server stored all collected data.

See also 
 Linux Counter

References

External links 
 Smolt wiki
 Smolt retirement
 openSUSE about Smolt

Linux
Discontinued software
Internet properties disestablished in 2013